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woolly

Or ·É´Ç´Ç±ô·²â

[wool-ee]

adjective

woollier, woolliest 
  1. consisting of wool.

    a woolly fleece.

  2. resembling wool in texture or appearance.

    woolly hair.

  3. clothed or covered with wool or something resembling it.

    a woolly caterpillar.

  4. Botany.Ìýcovered with a pubescence of long, soft hairs resembling wool.

  5. like the rough, vigorous atmosphere of the early West in America.

    wild and woolly.

  6. fuzzy; unclear; disorganized.

    woolly thinking.



noun

plural

woollies 
  1. Western U.S.Ìýa wool-bearing animal; sheep.

  2. Usually woollies. a knitted undergarment of wool or other fiber.

  3. any woolen garment, as a sweater.

  4. Dialect.Ìýa dust ball.

woolly

/ ˈ·ÉÊŠ±ôɪ /

adjective

  1. consisting of, resembling, or having the nature of wool

  2. covered or clothed in wool or something resembling it

  3. lacking clarity or substance

    woolly thinking

  4. botany covered with long soft whitish hairs

    woolly stems

  5. recalling the rough and lawless period of the early West of America (esp in the phrase wild and woolly )

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. (often plural) a garment, such as a sweater, made of wool or something similar

  2. (usually plural) an informal word for sheep

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • woolliness noun
  • ˈ·É´Ç´Ç±ô±ô¾±±ô²â adverb
  • ˈ·É´Ç´Ç±ô±ô¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of woolly1

First recorded in 1580–90; wool + -y 1
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It's not just Siberia and an engineered “woolly mammoth†we should worry about, though.

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The company’s other de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.

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It has publicised its efforts to use similar cutting edge genetic techniques to bring back extinct animals including the woolly mammoth and the Tasmanian tiger.

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Lutnick’s observation gained instant meme status on social media, along with his woolly assertions about government spending not having anything to do with inflation, and enhanced his stature as the Trump Cabinet’s outstanding horse’s patootie.

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The woolly mice had eight of their genes modified: seven were adapted mice genes related to hair growth and the eighth was a mammoth gene related to increasing body fat.

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