Meaning

4 senses

  1. (informal)A sweater or similar garment made of wool.

  2. (US, slang)A sheep not yet shorn.

  3. A piece of woolwork.

  4. (derogatory)A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.

Examples

19 sentences

  1. Woolly mammoths once roamed the earth.

    deDie Wollhaarmammuts wandelten einst auf Erden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Mennad's woolly hat is very comfy.

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  3. She was wearing a woolly jumper.

    deSie trug einen Wollpullover. — Yorwba

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  4. It is still a woolly concept.

    deDas ist noch immer ein verschwommenes Konzept. — Waldelfe

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  5. Can the woolly mammoth be brought back?

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Origin

From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich

From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).

From woolly back.

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Forms

plural: woollies

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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