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woolly

  • adjective
  • /ˈwʊli/

Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.

Example

“woolly hair”

Other meanings

  1. Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.

    “That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.”

  2. Clothed in wool.

Word history

From Middle English "wolly".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “woolly” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.