Definitions for woolly

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woolly wool·ly

Spelling: [woo l-ee]

IPA: /ˈwʊl i/

Woolly is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in woolly (lloowy).

Definitions for woolly

noun

1. Western U.S. a wool-bearing animal; sheep.
2. Usually, woollies. a knitted undergarment of wool or other fiber.
3. any woolen garment, as a sweater.
4. Dialect. a dust ball.

adjective

1. consisting of wool:
2. resembling wool in texture or appearance:
3. clothed or covered with wool or something resembling it:
4. Botany. covered with a pubescence of long, soft hairs resembling wool.
5. like the rough, vigorous atmosphere of the early West in America:
6. fuzzy; unclear; disorganized:

Origin of woolly

First recorded in 1580-90; wool + -y¹

Examples for woolly

And every second belief in the world is a woolly superstition.

An army of Wildlings, some giants, and a woolly mammoth or two?

They covered the horse all up, so that he looked for all the world like a sheep, woolly.

The big negro looked sheepish and scratched his woolly head.

Did she learn from the New York 23rd District election that being a moderate Republican is a lot like being a woolly mammoth?

In a typical post, she wears a crazy-looking pinafore with an outrageous collar, round-frame shades, and thick, woolly knee socks.

Rockefeller Republicans have long gone the way of the woolly mammoth.

Atrotomentosus is from ater, black, and tomentum, woolly or downy.

Some came from the interior of Africa and had woolly hair and thick lips.

We intend testing the woolly sheep when we get settled there.