Woolly
['wʊlɪ] or ['wʊli]
Definition
(a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
(a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
(a.) Clothed with wool.
(a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Woollen, made of wool.[2]. Like wool.[3]. (Bot.) Lanuginous, downy.
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Examples
- But you can't take your own time to die in, Brother, began Mrs. Waule, with her usual woolly tone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I say, Tom, I s'pect you make 'em _understand_, for all niggers' heads is woolly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He may have been a woolly strange-looking creature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Steel, of Mudbury, took the saddle and two legs, Sir Pitt; but he says the last was too young and confounded woolly, Sir Pitt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yes, for he _does_ swar, said woolly-headed Mandy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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