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woolly

/ˈwʊli/ adjective B2
  1. Made of wool. · Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
  2. Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. · woolly hair· There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.
  3. Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy. (figuratively) · That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
  4. Uncivilized and unruly. (US, informal) · wild and woolly

Comparative woollier · Superlative woolliest

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Thick, woolly hair covered every part of it, and a more dreadful-looking monster could not be imagined.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 73 · B2
Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one-half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to the house.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 190 · C1

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