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wooly
noun
adjective
A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
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noun
A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
A sheep not yet shorn.
A piece of woolwork.
adjective
Made of wool.
“Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.”
Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
“There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.”
(of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic.
“That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.”
Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
Clothed in wool.
noun
A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.
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Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.
That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.