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Meanings of wooly in English

Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.

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      Covered with dense often matted or curly hairs.

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            Having a fluffy character or appearance.

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                  Usage of wooly in English
                  1
                  He emanates a wooly warmth even though his demeanor is somewhat aloof.
                  The Irish Times
                  2
                  They are especially common in tiger moths and wooly bear moths.
                  Wired
                  3
                  Two more funnels appeared behind the first, wooly tubes dropping from the clouds.
                  The story of edgar sawtelle
                  4
                  Those wooly worms was growing thicker hair for to stand a hard winter.
                  Serena
                  5
                  She pulled her wooly cardigan tightly around herself and headed downstairs.
                  Fiendish deeds
                  6
                  They are black in color, tall, well-shaped, with regular features and wooly hair.
                  The Future of the Colored Race in America / Being an article in ...
                  7
                  Her wooly hair was plaited into little tails which stuck out in all directions.
                  Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition
                  8
                  The little page-boy had a pet of a wooly head.
                  The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
                  9
                  What we're all talking about is like a wooly mammoth.
                  Wired
                  10
                  James Childress is a black man, small of stature, with crisp wooly dark hair.
                  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
                  11
                  Come along, you ornery, pigeon-toed, knock-kneed, sway-backed, wooly-haired excuse, you.
                  When A Man's A Man
                  12
                  I turned to face a wooly mammoth of a man.
                  Side Jobs
                  13
                  Behind him, a huge wooly dog, weighing a massive seventy kilos, followed his steps.
                  Map of bones
                  14
                  His "quick nap" after talking to Kip had left him wooly.
                  The black prism
                  15
                  It will be our night to howl, and every man will be a wooly wolf.
                  Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories
                  16
                  I was muffled in my father's sweaty smell and the wooly scratch of his pullover.
                  Another life altogether: a novel
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                  Wooly through the time