Definitions for wooly

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wooly wool·y

Spelling: [woo l-ee]

IPA: /ˈwʊl i/

Wooly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in wooly (loowy).

Definitions for wooly

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

Origin of wooly

First recorded in 1580-90; wool + -y¹

Examples for wooly

They stood about gracefully to be admired, with their wooly hair fluffed out at right angles to their head, for the occasion.

In other words, we were wild and wooly, but sincerely didn't know it.

Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.

They stole brass nails and small metal objects, hid them in their wooly and long hair, and then jumped overboard.

Her wooly hair was plaited into little tails which stuck out in all directions.

The name is from the Greek meaning "wooly knees," in allusion to the wooly joints of the stem.

Slowly and hesitatingly the man raised his wooly head and with wildly rolling eyes gazed fearfully at the boys.

The wooly covering of common mullein, for example, is made up of innumerable slender-branched hairs.

I was taken into one by Maurice, a gnarled old Vietnam vet in a wooly hat.

Their combined percentage of frizzly and wooly is 69, which is nearly 20 per cent less than that of the Fijians.