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Wooly   /wˈʊli/   Listen
Wooly

adjective
1.
Having a fluffy character or appearance.  Synonyms: flocculent, woolly.
2.
Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.  Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded.  "Your addled little brain" , "Woolly thinking" , "Woolly-headed ideas"
3.
Covered with dense often matted or curly hairs.  Synonyms: woolly, woolly-haired, wooly-haired.



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"Wooly" Quotes from Famous Books



... loftier altitudes in the ever cool forests on the high mountain flanks, beginning away up where the glacier first starts to crack and slide between the 'cleavers', and forests of stunted white-stemmed pine or wooly-fruited fir throw down their twigs and foliage undisturbed through centuries,—on down to where the plowing ice forgets its thrust, and melts to gentle floods amid spruce and hemlock-groves,—all the way the beautiful versicolor spreads and fruits, ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride


Words linked to "Wooly" :   haired, soft, hairy, hirsute, confused, wool


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