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woolly

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1. woolly - Noun

2. woolly - Adjective

3. woolly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.

Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.

Clothed with wool.

Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. Hilaire Belloc

John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father. Murray Rothbard

St. Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold. John Keats

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped. P. G. Wodehouse

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there. Jock Sturges

Many a sheep goes out woolly and comes home shorn. Danish Proverb

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