woollyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈwʊli/, U.S.

/ˈwʊli/

Forms: Also 1500s woolley, 1600s wolly, 1600s, 1800s wooly, 1700s Scottish ooy.

Etymology: < wool n. + -y suffix¹. Compare (Middle) Low German wullig, Dutch, German wollig.

A. adj.

1. Consisting of wool. Also transferred relating to wool; containing wool (or sheep).

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > made of or consisting of

woollen1046

fleecy1567

woolly1591

woolsey1839

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > full of

woolly1591

sheepy1934

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of parts of > having a fleece > of fleece or wool

woolly1591

tagged1757

shedded1844

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective]

probaticc1450

sheepy1532

vervecine1653

probatical1747

woolly1820

ovine1828

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective]

laneous1676

woolly1891

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 302 Giuing accompt of th' annuall increace Both of their lambes, and of their woolley fleece.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 165 He had upon his upper Garment, some black Sheep-skin, the woolly side out.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 137 Thus while she sings, the Sisters turn the Wheel, Empty the wooly Rock, and fill the Reel.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 509 The Sheep..A patient, useful Creature, born to bear, The warm and woolly Fleece, that cloath'd her Murderer.

1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 83 Silent was the flock in woolly fold.

1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 214 The high perfection of all woolly occupations.

a. Of the nature, texture, or appearance of wool; resembling wool; wool-like.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > of the nature of or resembling

woollish1562

woolly1594

fleecy1700

woollyish1793

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 34 My fleece of wollie haire.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxlvii. 47 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 249 Snowes woolly locks by hym wide scatt'red are.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 106 Called..in Latine Laniferus, bicause of his abundance of woolly flockes, wherewith the whole plant is in euerie part full fraughted.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iii. iii. 37 The woolly-curdled Clouds.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1657 (1955) III. 195 It was of a wolly haire as a lamb.

1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 186 O, may'st Thou often see Thy Furrows whiten'd by the woolly Rain [cf. ὕδωρ ἐριῶδες], Nutricious!

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 280 Short woolly curls o'erfleec'd his bending head.

1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. 91 Its fur..is of a woolly nature.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 31 Coarse black hair, but not wooly, like the negroes.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton ii, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 38 The sky had the white woolly look that portends snow.

1902 Words of Eye-witness 53 A puff of woolly smoke in the air.

b. Having a soft and clinging texture; said esp. of edible things which are consequently unpleasant to the palate; also of the surface of a road, and of the atmosphere in a place.

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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stiff or thick

standingc1400

chargeantc1425

woolly1687

clunch1776

stodgya1852

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > unpalatable

unsweetc1440

boisterous1483

untasty1566

untoothsome1576

twice sod1601

coarse1607

irrelishable1608

asper1626

insuave1657

untoward1662

physicala1665

asperous1670

unpalatable1682

woolly1687

inelegant1708

smoked1761

impalatable1782

brassy1789

soddena1800

metallic1800

inky1805

unsweetened1817

weedy1851

tinny1873

tangy1875

raw1881

unappetizing1884

twangy1887

stavy1888

toasty1890

soapy1892

stewy1895

gloppy1976

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > having specific surface or construction

unironedc1450

unpaveda1533

corduroy1822

macadamized1823

metalled1825

unmacadamized1826

flagless1840

unmetalled1843

corduroyed1854

woolly1862

water-bound1909

hardtop1915

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 117 The Fruit..is pretty sweet but woolly [Fr. cotonneux].

1829 Sporting Mag. 23 416 He..has a pair of leaders ready when the roads run woolly.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 207 Barley..is apt to render the flesh [of poultry] insipid, and woolly.

1854 Poultry Chron. 1 619 She has found the eggs of Spanish fowls eat woolly.

1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar ix. 345 Time's short,..roads woolly, and whip~cord scarce.

1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 497 The pulp soon assumes a spongy appearance, technically known as ‘woolly’.

1882 Garden 18 Mar. 176/2 Turnips have become all tops, and..are just getting into the woolly stage.

1894 H. Caine Manxman 309 But no sooner had he breathed the soft, woolly, stagnant air within than a change came over him.

a. Having a natural covering of wool, wool-bearing.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of parts of > having a fleece

woolled1425

fleecy1590

woolly1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 82 When the worke of generation was Betweene these wolly breeders in the act.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 292 Like him in Caves they shut their woolly Sheep.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 319 Then suddenly was heard..To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train.

1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 104 Twall score o' sheep..sal be thine, O' ooy sheep, the fattest o' the plain.

1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 139 [The colly dog] is jumping from one woolly back to another, intent on singling out the one which has been indicated to him.

b. Having hair resembling wool: applied esp. (depreciatively) to black people of African origin or descent (= woolly-haired adj. at Compounds 1, woolly-headed adj.).

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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > frizzy > having

wool-pated1703

woolly-headed1708

woolly1767

Brillo-headed1969

1767 Carteret in Hawkesw. Voy. (1773) I. 568 Two of the natives..were black, with woolly heads.

1812 A. L. Barbauld 1811 166 Streets, where the turban'd Moslem, bearded Jew, And woolly Afric, met the brown Hindu.

1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel III. ii. 30 He had eaten pemmican, and ridden a woolly horse.

1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 351 It was a large, woolly poodle, snowy white.

c. In specific names of animals, often rendering Latin lanatus, laniger.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly

pileda1475

villous1661

woolly1781

comous1877

1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 213 Woolly Maucauco.

1793 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 3) II. 196 Woolly Rat.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 551 The pear..is seldom affected with the woolly aphis.

1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 598 Fig. Woolly crab, Dorippe lanata.

1877 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 171 The Woolly Monkeys, Lagothrix.

1877 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 221 The Woolly Lemur—The Avahi. Indris laniger.

1878 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 333 Rhinoceros trichorhinus, or the Woolly Rhinoceros.

d. wild and woolly, originally applied to the Far West (west n.¹ 3a(d)) of the United States of America on account of its rude and uncivilized character; hence gen. barbarous, lacking culture. Also transferred, and as woolly simply.

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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > rude

wild and woolly1884

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective]

wilda1300

bestiala1398

wilderna1400

savagine?a1439

barbaric1490

rudea1530

barbar1535

barbarous1538

pagan1550

uncivil1553

Scythical1559

raw?1573

savaged1583

incivil1586

savage1589

barbarian1591

uncivilized1607

negerous1609

mountainous1613

ruvid1632

ruvidous1632

barbarious1633

incivilizeda1645

alabandical1656

inhumanea1680

tramontane1740

semi-barbarous1798

irreclaimed1814

semi-savage1833

semiferine1854

warrigal1855

sloven1856

semi-barbaric1864

pre-civilized1876

wild and woolly1884

jungle1908

medieval1917

jungli1920

1884 A. J. Sowell Rangers & Pioneers of Texas xi. 330 Occasionally, in some Western village, you will hear a voice ring out on the night air..‘Wild and woolly’,..and then you may expect a few shots from a revolver. It is a cowboy out on a little spree.

1891 A. Welcker Tales Wild West Publishers' Note Woolly..seems to refer to the uncivilized—untamed—hair outside—wool still in the sheepskin coat—condition of the Western Pioneers.

1891 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills iii. iv. 191 Let us ‘move our freight’, ‘hit the breeze’, or any other term of the woolly West that means action.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 2/1 How many Indians did you kill? Now, Cappen, I want something wild and woolly.

1904 N.Y. Evening Post 22 June 7 A young woman who ropes steers with as much ease and expedition as the ‘wooliest’ cowboy.

1940 R. S. Lambert Ariel & all his Quality viii. 197 [They] looked with scepticism upon a plan which they regarded as wild and woolly.

†e. = woollen adj. 1c. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adjective] > silent > of footsteps

feather-footed1565

woollen1597

cat-footed1598

soft-footed1603

woolly1631

still-footed1894

1631 T. Dekker Match mee in London ii. i. 132 Thankes vengeance; thou at last art come, (Tho with wolly feet).

a. Of parts of plants: Covered with a pubescence resembling wool; downy, lanate, tomentose.

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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair

beardedc1450

downy1551

cottoned1578

friezed1578

maned1578

woolly1578

hairy1597

bristle-pointed1601

comous1657

fimbrious1657

tomentous1657

shagged1671

tomentose1698

crinated1724

villose1727

hispid1753

pubescent1760

setose1760

villous1766

lashed1776

silky1776

strigous1776

sericeous1777

awny1786

awned1787

strigose1793

shaggy1796

stupose1799

thready1804

feather-headed1821

setous1822

aristate1829

filamentous1835

fimbriate1836

puberulent1841

puberulous1841

sericated1848

barbate1853

strigillose1857

fimbrilliferous1866

ciliolate1870

fimbrillose1884

strigulated1899

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxiv. 124 Aethiopis hath great brode woolly leaues.

1616 B. Jonson Forrest ii. 43 in Wks. I The blushing apricot, and woolly peach.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 596 Rough is the Stem, which woolly Leafs surround.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Abutilon The large-leav'd American Abutilon, with woolly Stalks.

1845 R. Browning Lost Mistress in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics ii The leaf-buds on the Vine are woolly.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 53 Githago segetum..Calyx woolly.

b. In specific names of plants, often rendering Latin lanatus or tomentosus.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 106 Bulbus Eriophorus. Woolly Iacint.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 634 We may call it Mullein of Æthiopia, or woolly Mullein.

1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 61 Hypericum tomentosum,..Lobells Woolly S. Iohns~wort.

1830 J. D. Maycock Flora Barbadensis 294 Phaseolus Mungo..Woolly-Pyroe.

1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 111 Salix lanata..Woolly Broad-leaved Willow.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 524 ‘Woolly Gum’ of Berrima..This is the smooth-barked variety of Eucalyptus Stuartiana.

5. gen. Having a wool-like texture, surface, or covering.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > having wool-like surface or covering

woolly1796

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 27 The nativo [nitre] is generally acicular or woolly.

1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. iii. xv The golf-bag..woolly now with the accumulated mildew of neglect.

6. transferred and figurative. Lacking in definiteness or incisiveness; ‘muzzy’; (of the mind, etc.) confused and hazy; (of painting, etc.) lacking in clearness or definition; (of sound, etc.) dull and indistinct.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct

dimc1000

blinda1398

undistingued1398

obscure?a1450

undistinct1495

shadowed1588

undistinguishable1600

shady1626

blear1637

filmed1637

indistinguishable1642

crepusculous1646

adumbrated1650

oblite1650

faint1660

monogrammous1678

blurred1701

faintish1712

wispya1717

adumbrant1727

muzzy1744

indistinct1764

fuzzy1778

misty1797

shadowy1797

undistinguished1814

woolly1815

vague1822

furzy1825

mystified1833

slurred1843

feeble1860

smudginga1861

filmy1864

smudgy1865

blurry1884

slurry1937

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective]

redelessOE

mopishc1300

tottedc1500

addle1534

muddy?1571

addle1576

foggya1591

foggy-brained1594

addled1599

addle-headed1600

bezzled1604

addle-pated1614

addle-brained1619

buzzle-headeda1644

puzzle-headed1729

puzzle-pated1736

muddle-headed1760

ramble-headeda1761

hulver-headed1785

ramfeezled1786

muddled1790

hoddy-doddya1798

muzzy-headed1798

bother-headed1820

muddle-pated1823

pixilated1848

woolly1864

bungle-headed1865

mixed1880

muddlesome1887

wifty1918

woozy1941

spastic1981

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective]

deada1533

sullen1599

wooden1609

flat1626

shallow1626

lumpish1742

dowf1768

toneless1773

deadish1783

insonorous1795

tubby1807

veiled1816

puffy1832

narrow-toned1865

woolly1872

woody1875

dull1878

irresonant1899

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > indistinct

thicka1398

undistinguished1595

obscure1656

muddy1841

thick-voiced1859

slushy1861

thick-speaking1861

woolly1872

stuffy1889

far-away1897

1815 Sporting Mag. 46 54 It [sc. a picture] looks woolly, undecided in shapes.

1839 W. A. Chatto Treat. Wood Engraving viii. 711 Some of the chiaro-scuros..seem too soft and woolly.

1864 E. Yates Broken to Harness I. viii. 146 The daughter of old Dunkel..was a little woolly.

1865 Hawker in Life (1905) 518 Pusey's woolly mind appears to cling to him [sc. Gladstone].

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxv. 198 ‘I suppose you know..’ said Mrs Waule, in the lowest of her woolly tones.

1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne v The farm-servants..lost in woolly wonder.

1878 J. N. Lockyer Stargazing 354 Except on the finest of nights the stars..appear woolly.

1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie xix ‘That is not a bad remark, Joseph,’ replied the laird, with woolly condescension.

1881 R. L. Stevenson Some Portraits by Raeburn in Virginibus Puerisque (1905) 142 Dugald Stewart's woolly and evasive periods.

1884 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 26 Dec. 681/3 A drawing to look into, but rather woolly at a few paces off.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 572 The performance..growing woollier and woollier in tone, and then dying out in sleep.

1897 Graphic Christmas No. 9 The stiff woolly piano.

B. n.

1. A woollen garment or covering; now esp. plural, garments or wraps knitted of (fleecy) wool. winter woollies, warm underwear (not necessarily of wool); frequently jocular. Also figurative.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > cloth or textile

weedOE

blanket1346

cover-pane1481

sheet1487

drapet1590

cover-cloth1599

receiver1688

woolly1864

clothing1881

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > wool > article of

woolly1899

wool1933

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > wool > types of

russeta1450

raploch1535

russetinga1588

sheep's russet1590

hodden grey1725

flannels1888

woolly1899

loden1911

red flannel1940

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > warm

winter woollies1926

thermals1979

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Woolly, a blanket.

1899 19th Cent. Aug. 283 ‘Granny the Thimbleman’..knits woollies for the ‘quality’.

1916 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 514 (note) Flannel shirts..and woollies of all sorts for the wounded soldiers.

1919 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 148/2 Some thin underclothing and a ‘woolley’ in addition to the spare shirt and socks.

1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof vi. 194 His mother had bought him a new set of winter woollies which felt like horsehair.

1933 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 24 Catch him [sc. Wordsworth].. walking the hills with a daffodil pressed to his lips, and his winter woollies tickling his chest.

1964 Observer 13 Sept. 11/3 If we wear the winter woollies of traditional trade unionism against the hot sun of automation, we may sweat it out instead of thinking it out.

1974 Nature 18 Oct. 569/1 The dinosaurs' unsatisfied need was not so much for laxatives as for winter woollies!

2. A sheep; esp. (Australian and New Zealand) one before shearing. U.S., Australian, and New Zealand colloquial.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep)

sheepc825

sowthc1175

balle1440

wool-bearer1483

flocklinga1652

ram-sheep1672

fleece1783

jumbuck1824

ovine1890

mae1899

woolly1910

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined in relation to shearing

rosella1849

woolly1910

catch1933

snob1945

1910 J. G. Neihardt River & I iii. 92 In Scotland when a feller sees a sheepman coming down the road with his sheep, he says: ‘Behold the gentle shepherd with his fleecy flock!’.. In Montana, that same feller says..‘Look at that crazy blankety-blank with his woolies!’

1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Apr. 23/1 We curse the stubborn woollies..as the sweating shearers tussle.

1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn xi. 162 She had a little short~bodied guitar of the kind that Mexican sheep herders used to carry around behind their saddles to entertain the woolies with.

1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiii. 111 White dots that you could tell were both sheep and lambs; and they were so white it was easy to tell that they weren't woollies any more.

1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief vi. 48 The biggest proportion proved to be Totara sheep of mixed ages, three of them woollies.

3. [Compare wolly n.] A uniformed policeman. slang.

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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman

truncheon officer1708

runner1735

horny1753

nibbing-cull1775

nabbing-cull1780

police officer1784

police constable1787

policeman1788

scout1789

nabman1792

nabber1795

pig1811

Bow-street officer1812

nab1813

peeler1816

split1819

grunter1823

robin redbreast1824

bulky1828

raw (or unboiled) lobster1829

Johnny Darm1830

polis1833

crusher1835

constable1839

police1839

agent1841

johndarm1843

blue boy1844

bobby1844

bluebottle1845

copper1846

blue1848

polisman1850

blue coat1851

Johnny1851

PC1851

spot1851

Jack1854

truncheonist1854

fly1857

greycoat1857

cop1859

Cossack1859

slop1859

scuffer1860

nailerc1863

worm1864

Robert1870

reeler1879

minion of the law1882

ginger pop1887

rozzer1888

nark1890

bull1893

grasshopper1893

truncheon-bearer1896

John1898

finger1899

flatty1899

mug1903

John Dunn1904

John Hop1905

gendarme1906

Johnny Hop1908

pavement pounder1908

buttons1911

flat-foot1913

pounder1919

Hop1923

bogy1925

shamus1925

heat1928

fuzz1929

law1929

narker1932

roach1932

jonnop1938

grass1939

roller1940

Babylon1943

walloper1945

cozzer1950

Old Bill1958

cowboy1959

monaych1961

cozzpot1962

policeperson1965

woolly1965

Fed1966

wolly1970

plod1971

roz1971

Smokey Bear1974

bear1975

beast1978

woodentop1981

Five-O1983

dibble1990

Bow-street runner-

1965 R. E. Ridgway in B. Wannan Fair Go, Spinner ii. 66 Later on, as the station expanded and more ‘woollies’ were added, the shed grew accordingly.

1975 Listener 6 Feb. 163/2 Sir Robert Mark…saw its [sc. the CID's] members behaving as if they could walk on water, and looking down on the ‘woollies’ who had to plod the beat in uniform.

1978 ‘B. Graeme’ Double Trouble xv. 191 One of the woollies blew his whistle.

1984 Private Eye 20 Apr. 6/2 A small army of ‘Woollies’—CID slang for uniformed officers—were summoned.

Compounds

C1.

woolly-butted adj. (see butt n.⁶ 2b).

1843 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies 445 The Gum-trees..are of several species. One called here, the Woolly-butted Gum, seems identical with the Black-butted Gum of Tasmania.

woolly-coated adj.

1851 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour lxv, in New Monthly Mag. Feb. 226 A lank, woolly-coated weed [sc. a horse].

woolly-haired adj.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 405 Lord Monboddo's notion that the ancient Egyptians..were not only black, but woolly-haired.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xii. 103 Miss Swartz, the woolly-haired young heiress from St. Kitt's.

1868 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) II. iii. xlvii. 563 The..woolly-haired rhinoceros.

woolly-leaved adj.

1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 380 Inula Suaveolens. Woolly-leaved Inula.

1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 128 The Woolly-leaved Rose (Rosa tomentosa).

woolly-looking adj.

1881 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. I. ii. at Breislakite A woolly-looking variety of aluminous pyroxene.

woolly-minded adj.

1898 Daily News 8 Nov. 5/4 There are plenty of such woolly-minded men in high places.

woolly-mindedness n.

1923 Blackwood's Mag. May 598/2 The Don, with much alacrity and woolly-mindedness,..proceeded to ransack all the lockers.

woolly-pated adj.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 18 A comely well Limb'd Person, though a Woolly-pated Coffery.

woolly-tailed adj.

1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India x. 362 Woolly-tailed Yak ox.

woolly-witted adj.

1927 Observer 6 Nov. 15/1 The managerial attitude towards producers is at present woolly-witted.

1949 St. J. Ervine Craigavon ii. lvii. 273 That woolly-witted insurrectionist.

C2.

woolly bear n. (a) colloquial (esp. children's), also dialect a hairy caterpillar; also spec. the larva of the carpet beetle; frequently attributive; (b) Military slang (see quots.).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [adjective] > of larva of tiger-moth

woolly bear1863

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > of larva of carpet beetle

woolly bear1863

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy

woubit1483

palmer1538

bear worm1577

furry1598

tailor-fly1682

woolly boy1805

tailor1816

woolly bear1863

miller1883

woolly worm1909

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [adjective] > of larva > of large or hairy caterpillar

woolly bear1863

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > member of (tiger-moth) > larva or woolly bear

woubit1483

woolly boy1805

woolly bear1863

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Dermestidae > member of genus Anthrenus (carpet beetle) > larva of or woolly bear

woolly bear1863

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell

carcass1684

light ball1729

anchor ball1779

shrapnel1810

hollow shot1862

segment-shell1862

blind-shell1864

ring-shot1868

star shell1876

ring-shell1879

pipsqueak1900

Black Maria1914

coal box1914

crump1914

Jack Johnson1914

Archie1915

Little Willie1915

whizz-bang1915

woolly bear1915

fizzbang1916

five-ninea1918

ashcan1918

cream puff1918

sea-bag1918

pudding1919

G.I. can1929

flechette1961

1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 535 Its [sc. the Tiger-moth's] caterpillar is..familiar under the name of Woolly Bear.

1915 War Illustr. 31 July 546/2 The German high-explosive shell, known to our men by the nickname of the ‘Woolly Bear’,..detonates with a cloud of thick white smoke.

1918 H. W. McBride Emma Gees 135 ‘Woolly Bear’ is the name given to a large, high explosive shell, with a time fuse, which bursts overhead, giving out a dense black smoke.

1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War II. 82 They were drenched with a five hours' bombardment of 4.2's and ‘woolly bears’.

1940 R. G. Russell 101st Field Artillery 1917–19 94 A German 150-millimetre battery fired ‘woolly bears’, time-fuse shells, which burst too high to do any harm.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Nov. 478/3 The most common enemy of cinerarias in New Zealand is the ‘woolly-bear’ caterpillar, the larva of the magpie moth.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 324/2 Woolly bear. This is the grub of a small beetle which..congregates in hot airing cupboards.

1961 Which? July 157/1 The varied carpet beetle, often known in its larval phase as the woolly bear (Anthrenus verbasci).

1974 A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiv. 247 Woolly bears, those orange-and-black-banded furry caterpillars of the Isabella moth, were on the move.

1980 Blair & Ketchum's Country Jrnl. Oct. 28/2 October is the month when the woolly bear caterpillar, sometimes called a fuzzy-wuzzy or woolly worm, can be seen crossing country roads.

1983 Listener 27 Oct. 16/3 Our wall-to wall carpets attract the ‘woolly bear’ grubs of the carpet beetle.

woolly boy n. a large hairy caterpillar, esp. the larva of the tiger-moth.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy

woubit1483

palmer1538

bear worm1577

furry1598

tailor-fly1682

woolly boy1805

tailor1816

woolly bear1863

miller1883

woolly worm1909

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > member of (tiger-moth) > larva or woolly bear

woubit1483

woolly boy1805

woolly bear1863

1805 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 7 Nov. Like an immense caterpillar, such as, when we were children, we used to call Woolly Boys, from their hairy coat.

woolly butt n. [butt n.⁶ 2b] an Australian name for species of Eucalyptus, esp. E. longifolia.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees

yellow box1662

gum tree1676

white gum tree1733

whip-stick1782

peppermint1790

red gum tree1790

red mahogany1798

white gum1798

box1801

blue gum1802

eucalyptus1809

box tree1819

black-butted gum1820

bloodwood1827

white ash1830

blackbutt1833

morrel1837

mountain ash1837

mallee scrub1845

apple gum1846

flooded gum1847

Moreton Bay ash1847

mallee1848

swamp gum1852

box-gum1855

manna gum1855

white top1856

river gum1860

grey box1861

woolly butt1862

marlock1863

fever tree1867

red ironbark1867

river white gum1867

karri1870

yellow jacket1876

eucalypt1877

yapunyah1878

coolibah1879

scribbly gum1883

forest mahogany1884

yellow jack1884

rose gum1885

Jimmy Low1887

nankeen gum1889

slaty gum1889

sugar-gum1889

apple box1890

Murray red gum1895

creek-gum1898

eucalyptian1901

forest red gum1904

river red gum1920

napunyah1921

whitewash gum1923

ghost gum1928

snow gum1928

Sydney blue gum1932

salmon gum1934

lapunyah1940

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Catal. Nat. & Industr. Products Queensland 25 Eucalyptus sp... Woolly Butt.

1912 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 247 Giant woolly-butt forests.

woolly mammoth n. = mammoth n. 1.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > extinct types > mammoth

mammoth1706

woolly mammoth1933

1933 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. xix. 376 The woolly mammoth was a form adapted to cold climates.

1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xvi. 359 The presence of either the woolly mammoth or the reindeer does not necessarily indicate an arctic climate.

1976 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 May 6/1 The woolly mammoth..roamed the tundra areas.

woolly sheep n. a variety of the Rocky Mountain sheep.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. iii. 69 This animal is commonly called the mountain sheep, and is often confounded with another animal, the ‘woolly sheep’ found more to the northward.

woolly worm n. U.S. a hairy caterpillar.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy

woubit1483

palmer1538

bear worm1577

furry1598

tailor-fly1682

woolly boy1805

tailor1816

woolly bear1863

miller1883

woolly worm1909

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wooly worm, the larva of any sawfly that covers itself with a white woolly secretion.

1911 E. Ferber Dawn O'Hara ii. 19 I'd eat wooly worms if I thought they might benefit me.

1972 E. Wigginton Foxfire Bk. 209 The woolly worm tells of a bad winter if: there are a lot of them crawling about.

Draft additions March 2020

woolly pully n. originally British a woollen pullover sweater, esp. of a style worn by military personnel and reinforced with patches at the shoulders and elbows; cf. pully n.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.

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1978 Observer 19 Nov. 28/9 For the first time the temperature rose to above jacket and woolly pully level.

1979 Daily Mail 11 Dec. 10 (advt.) What have the next 3½ years got to offer you? Action Adventure..Warfare Training Wardrooms Woolly Pullies [etc.].

1981 J. Shortt Special Air Service 7/2 (caption) SBS soldier in ‘woolly pully’ and beige beret with SAS badge, photographed outside HQ Raiding Forces Middle East.

2011 A. Atkins Ranger xxi. 186 Two wore camo jackets, one wore a woolly pully, and the last was in a sleeveless T-shirt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	woolly
释义	woollyadj.n. Brit. /ˈwʊli/, U.S. /ˈwʊli/ Forms: Also 1500s woolley, 1600s wolly, 1600s, 1800s wooly, 1700s Scottish ooy. Etymology: < wool n. + -y suffix¹. Compare (Middle) Low German wullig, Dutch, German wollig. A. adj. 1. Consisting of wool. Also transferred relating to wool; containing wool (or sheep). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > made of or consisting of woollen1046 fleecy1567 woolly1591 woolsey1839 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > full of woolly1591 sheepy1934 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of parts of > having a fleece > of fleece or wool woolly1591 tagged1757 shedded1844 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] probaticc1450 sheepy1532 vervecine1653 probatical1747 woolly1820 ovine1828 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] laneous1676 woolly1891 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 302 Giuing accompt of th' annuall increace Both of their lambes, and of their woolley fleece. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 165 He had upon his upper Garment, some black Sheep-skin, the woolly side out. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 137 Thus while she sings, the Sisters turn the Wheel, Empty the wooly Rock, and fill the Reel. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 509 The Sheep..A patient, useful Creature, born to bear, The warm and woolly Fleece, that cloath'd her Murderer. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 83 Silent was the flock in woolly fold. 1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 214 The high perfection of all woolly occupations. 2. a. Of the nature, texture, or appearance of wool; resembling wool; wool-like. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > of the nature of or resembling woollish1562 woolly1594 fleecy1700 woollyish1793 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 34 My fleece of wollie haire. View more context for this quotation c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxlvii. 47 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 249 Snowes woolly locks by hym wide scatt'red are. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 106 Called..in Latine Laniferus, bicause of his abundance of woolly flockes, wherewith the whole plant is in euerie part full fraughted. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iii. iii. 37 The woolly-curdled Clouds. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1657 (1955) III. 195 It was of a wolly haire as a lamb. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 186 O, may'st Thou often see Thy Furrows whiten'd by the woolly Rain [cf. ὕδωρ ἐριῶδες], Nutricious! 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 280 Short woolly curls o'erfleec'd his bending head. 1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. 91 Its fur..is of a woolly nature. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 31 Coarse black hair, but not wooly, like the negroes. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton ii, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 38 The sky had the white woolly look that portends snow. 1902 Words of Eye-witness 53 A puff of woolly smoke in the air. b. Having a soft and clinging texture; said esp. of edible things which are consequently unpleasant to the palate; also of the surface of a road, and of the atmosphere in a place. ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > stiff or thick standingc1400 chargeantc1425 woolly1687 clunch1776 stodgya1852 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > unpalatable unsweetc1440 boisterous1483 untasty1566 untoothsome1576 twice sod1601 coarse1607 irrelishable1608 asper1626 insuave1657 untoward1662 physicala1665 asperous1670 unpalatable1682 woolly1687 inelegant1708 smoked1761 impalatable1782 brassy1789 soddena1800 metallic1800 inky1805 unsweetened1817 weedy1851 tinny1873 tangy1875 raw1881 unappetizing1884 twangy1887 stavy1888 toasty1890 soapy1892 stewy1895 gloppy1976 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > having specific surface or construction unironedc1450 unpaveda1533 corduroy1822 macadamized1823 metalled1825 unmacadamized1826 flagless1840 unmetalled1843 corduroyed1854 woolly1862 water-bound1909 hardtop1915 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 117 The Fruit..is pretty sweet but woolly [Fr. cotonneux]. 1829 Sporting Mag. 23 416 He..has a pair of leaders ready when the roads run woolly. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 207 Barley..is apt to render the flesh [of poultry] insipid, and woolly. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 619 She has found the eggs of Spanish fowls eat woolly. 1862 G. J. Whyte-Melville Inside Bar ix. 345 Time's short,..roads woolly, and whip~cord scarce. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 497 The pulp soon assumes a spongy appearance, technically known as ‘woolly’. 1882 Garden 18 Mar. 176/2 Turnips have become all tops, and..are just getting into the woolly stage. 1894 H. Caine Manxman 309 But no sooner had he breathed the soft, woolly, stagnant air within than a change came over him. 3. a. Having a natural covering of wool, wool-bearing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of parts of > having a fleece woolled1425 fleecy1590 woolly1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 82 When the worke of generation was Betweene these wolly breeders in the act. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 292 Like him in Caves they shut their woolly Sheep. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xii. 319 Then suddenly was heard..To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. 1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 104 Twall score o' sheep..sal be thine, O' ooy sheep, the fattest o' the plain. 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 139 [The colly dog] is jumping from one woolly back to another, intent on singling out the one which has been indicated to him. b. Having hair resembling wool: applied esp. (depreciatively) to black people of African origin or descent (= woolly-haired adj. at Compounds 1, woolly-headed adj.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > frizzy > having wool-pated1703 woolly-headed1708 woolly1767 Brillo-headed1969 1767 Carteret in Hawkesw. Voy. (1773) I. 568 Two of the natives..were black, with woolly heads. 1812 A. L. Barbauld 1811 166 Streets, where the turban'd Moslem, bearded Jew, And woolly Afric, met the brown Hindu. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel III. ii. 30 He had eaten pemmican, and ridden a woolly horse. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 351 It was a large, woolly poodle, snowy white. c. In specific names of animals, often rendering Latin lanatus, laniger. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly pileda1475 villous1661 woolly1781 comous1877 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 213 Woolly Maucauco. 1793 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 3) II. 196 Woolly Rat. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 551 The pear..is seldom affected with the woolly aphis. 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 598 Fig. Woolly crab, Dorippe lanata. 1877 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 171 The Woolly Monkeys, Lagothrix. 1877 Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 221 The Woolly Lemur—The Avahi. Indris laniger. 1878 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 333 Rhinoceros trichorhinus, or the Woolly Rhinoceros. d. wild and woolly, originally applied to the Far West (west n.¹ 3a(d)) of the United States of America on account of its rude and uncivilized character; hence gen. barbarous, lacking culture. Also transferred, and as woolly simply. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > rude wild and woolly1884 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective] wilda1300 bestiala1398 wilderna1400 savagine?a1439 barbaric1490 rudea1530 barbar1535 barbarous1538 pagan1550 uncivil1553 Scythical1559 raw?1573 savaged1583 incivil1586 savage1589 barbarian1591 uncivilized1607 negerous1609 mountainous1613 ruvid1632 ruvidous1632 barbarious1633 incivilizeda1645 alabandical1656 inhumanea1680 tramontane1740 semi-barbarous1798 irreclaimed1814 semi-savage1833 semiferine1854 warrigal1855 sloven1856 semi-barbaric1864 pre-civilized1876 wild and woolly1884 jungle1908 medieval1917 jungli1920 1884 A. J. Sowell Rangers & Pioneers of Texas xi. 330 Occasionally, in some Western village, you will hear a voice ring out on the night air..‘Wild and woolly’,..and then you may expect a few shots from a revolver. It is a cowboy out on a little spree. 1891 A. Welcker Tales Wild West Publishers' Note Woolly..seems to refer to the uncivilized—untamed—hair outside—wool still in the sheepskin coat—condition of the Western Pioneers. 1891 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills iii. iv. 191 Let us ‘move our freight’, ‘hit the breeze’, or any other term of the woolly West that means action. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 30 Aug. 2/1 How many Indians did you kill? Now, Cappen, I want something wild and woolly. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 22 June 7 A young woman who ropes steers with as much ease and expedition as the ‘wooliest’ cowboy. 1940 R. S. Lambert Ariel & all his Quality viii. 197 [They] looked with scepticism upon a plan which they regarded as wild and woolly. †e. = woollen adj. 1c. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adjective] > silent > of footsteps feather-footed1565 woollen1597 cat-footed1598 soft-footed1603 woolly1631 still-footed1894 1631 T. Dekker Match mee in London ii. i. 132 Thankes vengeance; thou at last art come, (Tho with wolly feet). 4. a. Of parts of plants: Covered with a pubescence resembling wool; downy, lanate, tomentose. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair beardedc1450 downy1551 cottoned1578 friezed1578 maned1578 woolly1578 hairy1597 bristle-pointed1601 comous1657 fimbrious1657 tomentous1657 shagged1671 tomentose1698 crinated1724 villose1727 hispid1753 pubescent1760 setose1760 villous1766 lashed1776 silky1776 strigous1776 sericeous1777 awny1786 awned1787 strigose1793 shaggy1796 stupose1799 thready1804 feather-headed1821 setous1822 aristate1829 filamentous1835 fimbriate1836 puberulent1841 puberulous1841 sericated1848 barbate1853 strigillose1857 fimbrilliferous1866 ciliolate1870 fimbrillose1884 strigulated1899 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxiv. 124 Aethiopis hath great brode woolly leaues. 1616 B. Jonson Forrest ii. 43 in Wks. I The blushing apricot, and woolly peach. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 596 Rough is the Stem, which woolly Leafs surround. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Abutilon The large-leav'd American Abutilon, with woolly Stalks. 1845 R. Browning Lost Mistress in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics ii The leaf-buds on the Vine are woolly. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 53 Githago segetum..Calyx woolly. b. In specific names of plants, often rendering Latin lanatus or tomentosus. Π 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 106 Bulbus Eriophorus. Woolly Iacint. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 634 We may call it Mullein of Æthiopia, or woolly Mullein. 1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 61 Hypericum tomentosum,..Lobells Woolly S. Iohns~wort. 1830 J. D. Maycock Flora Barbadensis 294 Phaseolus Mungo..Woolly-Pyroe. 1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 111 Salix lanata..Woolly Broad-leaved Willow. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 524 ‘Woolly Gum’ of Berrima..This is the smooth-barked variety of Eucalyptus Stuartiana. 5. gen. Having a wool-like texture, surface, or covering. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [adjective] > having wool-like surface or covering woolly1796 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 27 The nativo [nitre] is generally acicular or woolly. 1914 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. iii. xv The golf-bag..woolly now with the accumulated mildew of neglect. 6. transferred and figurative. Lacking in definiteness or incisiveness; ‘muzzy’; (of the mind, etc.) confused and hazy; (of painting, etc.) lacking in clearness or definition; (of sound, etc.) dull and indistinct. ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct dimc1000 blinda1398 undistingued1398 obscure?a1450 undistinct1495 shadowed1588 undistinguishable1600 shady1626 blear1637 filmed1637 indistinguishable1642 crepusculous1646 adumbrated1650 oblite1650 faint1660 monogrammous1678 blurred1701 faintish1712 wispya1717 adumbrant1727 muzzy1744 indistinct1764 fuzzy1778 misty1797 shadowy1797 undistinguished1814 woolly1815 vague1822 furzy1825 mystified1833 slurred1843 feeble1860 smudginga1861 filmy1864 smudgy1865 blurry1884 slurry1937 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > confusion, muddle-headedness > [adjective] redelessOE mopishc1300 tottedc1500 addle1534 muddy?1571 addle1576 foggya1591 foggy-brained1594 addled1599 addle-headed1600 bezzled1604 addle-pated1614 addle-brained1619 buzzle-headeda1644 puzzle-headed1729 puzzle-pated1736 muddle-headed1760 ramble-headeda1761 hulver-headed1785 ramfeezled1786 muddled1790 hoddy-doddya1798 muzzy-headed1798 bother-headed1820 muddle-pated1823 pixilated1848 woolly1864 bungle-headed1865 mixed1880 muddlesome1887 wifty1918 woozy1941 spastic1981 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] deada1533 sullen1599 wooden1609 flat1626 shallow1626 lumpish1742 dowf1768 toneless1773 deadish1783 insonorous1795 tubby1807 veiled1816 puffy1832 narrow-toned1865 woolly1872 woody1875 dull1878 irresonant1899 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > indistinct thicka1398 undistinguished1595 obscure1656 muddy1841 thick-voiced1859 slushy1861 thick-speaking1861 woolly1872 stuffy1889 far-away1897 1815 Sporting Mag. 46 54 It [sc. a picture] looks woolly, undecided in shapes. 1839 W. A. Chatto Treat. Wood Engraving viii. 711 Some of the chiaro-scuros..seem too soft and woolly. 1864 E. Yates Broken to Harness I. viii. 146 The daughter of old Dunkel..was a little woolly. 1865 Hawker in Life (1905) 518 Pusey's woolly mind appears to cling to him [sc. Gladstone]. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iv. xxxv. 198 ‘I suppose you know..’ said Mrs Waule, in the lowest of her woolly tones. 1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne v The farm-servants..lost in woolly wonder. 1878 J. N. Lockyer Stargazing 354 Except on the finest of nights the stars..appear woolly. 1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie xix ‘That is not a bad remark, Joseph,’ replied the laird, with woolly condescension. 1881 R. L. Stevenson Some Portraits by Raeburn in Virginibus Puerisque (1905) 142 Dugald Stewart's woolly and evasive periods. 1884 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 26 Dec. 681/3 A drawing to look into, but rather woolly at a few paces off. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 572 The performance..growing woollier and woollier in tone, and then dying out in sleep. 1897 Graphic Christmas No. 9 The stiff woolly piano. B. n. 1. A woollen garment or covering; now esp. plural, garments or wraps knitted of (fleecy) wool. winter woollies, warm underwear (not necessarily of wool); frequently jocular. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > cloth or textile weedOE blanket1346 cover-pane1481 sheet1487 drapet1590 cover-cloth1599 receiver1688 woolly1864 clothing1881 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > wool > article of woolly1899 wool1933 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > wool > types of russeta1450 raploch1535 russetinga1588 sheep's russet1590 hodden grey1725 flannels1888 woolly1899 loden1911 red flannel1940 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > warm winter woollies1926 thermals1979 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Woolly, a blanket. 1899 19th Cent. Aug. 283 ‘Granny the Thimbleman’..knits woollies for the ‘quality’. 1916 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 514 (note) Flannel shirts..and woollies of all sorts for the wounded soldiers. 1919 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 148/2 Some thin underclothing and a ‘woolley’ in addition to the spare shirt and socks. 1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof vi. 194 His mother had bought him a new set of winter woollies which felt like horsehair. 1933 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 24 Catch him [sc. Wordsworth].. walking the hills with a daffodil pressed to his lips, and his winter woollies tickling his chest. 1964 Observer 13 Sept. 11/3 If we wear the winter woollies of traditional trade unionism against the hot sun of automation, we may sweat it out instead of thinking it out. 1974 Nature 18 Oct. 569/1 The dinosaurs' unsatisfied need was not so much for laxatives as for winter woollies! 2. A sheep; esp. (Australian and New Zealand) one before shearing. U.S., Australian, and New Zealand colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) sheepc825 sowthc1175 balle1440 wool-bearer1483 flocklinga1652 ram-sheep1672 fleece1783 jumbuck1824 ovine1890 mae1899 woolly1910 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined in relation to shearing rosella1849 woolly1910 catch1933 snob1945 1910 J. G. Neihardt River & I iii. 92 In Scotland when a feller sees a sheepman coming down the road with his sheep, he says: ‘Behold the gentle shepherd with his fleecy flock!’.. In Montana, that same feller says..‘Look at that crazy blankety-blank with his woolies!’ 1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 2 Apr. 23/1 We curse the stubborn woollies..as the sweating shearers tussle. 1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn xi. 162 She had a little short~bodied guitar of the kind that Mexican sheep herders used to carry around behind their saddles to entertain the woolies with. 1949 F. Sargeson I saw in my Dream ii. xiii. 111 White dots that you could tell were both sheep and lambs; and they were so white it was easy to tell that they weren't woollies any more. 1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief vi. 48 The biggest proportion proved to be Totara sheep of mixed ages, three of them woollies. 3. [Compare wolly n.] A uniformed policeman. slang. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman truncheon officer1708 runner1735 horny1753 nibbing-cull1775 nabbing-cull1780 police officer1784 police constable1787 policeman1788 scout1789 nabman1792 nabber1795 pig1811 Bow-street officer1812 nab1813 peeler1816 split1819 grunter1823 robin redbreast1824 bulky1828 raw (or unboiled) lobster1829 Johnny Darm1830 polis1833 crusher1835 constable1839 police1839 agent1841 johndarm1843 blue boy1844 bobby1844 bluebottle1845 copper1846 blue1848 polisman1850 blue coat1851 Johnny1851 PC1851 spot1851 Jack1854 truncheonist1854 fly1857 greycoat1857 cop1859 Cossack1859 slop1859 scuffer1860 nailerc1863 worm1864 Robert1870 reeler1879 minion of the law1882 ginger pop1887 rozzer1888 nark1890 bull1893 grasshopper1893 truncheon-bearer1896 John1898 finger1899 flatty1899 mug1903 John Dunn1904 John Hop1905 gendarme1906 Johnny Hop1908 pavement pounder1908 buttons1911 flat-foot1913 pounder1919 Hop1923 bogy1925 shamus1925 heat1928 fuzz1929 law1929 narker1932 roach1932 jonnop1938 grass1939 roller1940 Babylon1943 walloper1945 cozzer1950 Old Bill1958 cowboy1959 monaych1961 cozzpot1962 policeperson1965 woolly1965 Fed1966 wolly1970 plod1971 roz1971 Smokey Bear1974 bear1975 beast1978 woodentop1981 Five-O1983 dibble1990 Bow-street runner- 1965 R. E. Ridgway in B. Wannan Fair Go, Spinner ii. 66 Later on, as the station expanded and more ‘woollies’ were added, the shed grew accordingly. 1975 Listener 6 Feb. 163/2 Sir Robert Mark…saw its [sc. the CID's] members behaving as if they could walk on water, and looking down on the ‘woollies’ who had to plod the beat in uniform. 1978 ‘B. Graeme’ Double Trouble xv. 191 One of the woollies blew his whistle. 1984 Private Eye 20 Apr. 6/2 A small army of ‘Woollies’—CID slang for uniformed officers—were summoned. Compounds C1. woolly-butted adj. (see butt n.⁶ 2b). Π 1843 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies 445 The Gum-trees..are of several species. One called here, the Woolly-butted Gum, seems identical with the Black-butted Gum of Tasmania. woolly-coated adj. Π 1851 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour lxv, in New Monthly Mag. Feb. 226 A lank, woolly-coated weed [sc. a horse]. woolly-haired adj. Π 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 405 Lord Monboddo's notion that the ancient Egyptians..were not only black, but woolly-haired. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xii. 103 Miss Swartz, the woolly-haired young heiress from St. Kitt's. 1868 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) II. iii. xlvii. 563 The..woolly-haired rhinoceros. woolly-leaved adj. Π 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 380 Inula Suaveolens. Woolly-leaved Inula. 1859 W. S. Coleman Our Woodlands 128 The Woolly-leaved Rose (Rosa tomentosa). woolly-looking adj. Π 1881 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. I. ii. at Breislakite A woolly-looking variety of aluminous pyroxene. woolly-minded adj. Π 1898 Daily News 8 Nov. 5/4 There are plenty of such woolly-minded men in high places. woolly-mindedness n. Π 1923 Blackwood's Mag. May 598/2 The Don, with much alacrity and woolly-mindedness,..proceeded to ransack all the lockers. woolly-pated adj. Π 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 18 A comely well Limb'd Person, though a Woolly-pated Coffery. woolly-tailed adj. Π 1848 tr. W. Hoffmeister Trav. Ceylon & Continental India x. 362 Woolly-tailed Yak ox. woolly-witted adj. Π 1927 Observer 6 Nov. 15/1 The managerial attitude towards producers is at present woolly-witted. 1949 St. J. Ervine Craigavon ii. lvii. 273 That woolly-witted insurrectionist. C2. woolly bear n. (a) colloquial (esp. children's), also dialect a hairy caterpillar; also spec. the larva of the carpet beetle; frequently attributive; (b) Military slang (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [adjective] > of larva of tiger-moth woolly bear1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > of larva of carpet beetle woolly bear1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy woubit1483 palmer1538 bear worm1577 furry1598 tailor-fly1682 woolly boy1805 tailor1816 woolly bear1863 miller1883 woolly worm1909 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [adjective] > of larva > of large or hairy caterpillar woolly bear1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > member of (tiger-moth) > larva or woolly bear woubit1483 woolly boy1805 woolly bear1863 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Dermestidae > member of genus Anthrenus (carpet beetle) > larva of or woolly bear woolly bear1863 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell carcass1684 light ball1729 anchor ball1779 shrapnel1810 hollow shot1862 segment-shell1862 blind-shell1864 ring-shot1868 star shell1876 ring-shell1879 pipsqueak1900 Black Maria1914 coal box1914 crump1914 Jack Johnson1914 Archie1915 Little Willie1915 whizz-bang1915 woolly bear1915 fizzbang1916 five-ninea1918 ashcan1918 cream puff1918 sea-bag1918 pudding1919 G.I. can1929 flechette1961 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 535 Its [sc. the Tiger-moth's] caterpillar is..familiar under the name of Woolly Bear. 1915 War Illustr. 31 July 546/2 The German high-explosive shell, known to our men by the nickname of the ‘Woolly Bear’,..detonates with a cloud of thick white smoke. 1918 H. W. McBride Emma Gees 135 ‘Woolly Bear’ is the name given to a large, high explosive shell, with a time fuse, which bursts overhead, giving out a dense black smoke. 1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War II. 82 They were drenched with a five hours' bombardment of 4.2's and ‘woolly bears’. 1940 R. G. Russell 101st Field Artillery 1917–19 94 A German 150-millimetre battery fired ‘woolly bears’, time-fuse shells, which burst too high to do any harm. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Nov. 478/3 The most common enemy of cinerarias in New Zealand is the ‘woolly-bear’ caterpillar, the larva of the magpie moth. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 324/2 Woolly bear. This is the grub of a small beetle which..congregates in hot airing cupboards. 1961 Which? July 157/1 The varied carpet beetle, often known in its larval phase as the woolly bear (Anthrenus verbasci). 1974 A. Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek xiv. 247 Woolly bears, those orange-and-black-banded furry caterpillars of the Isabella moth, were on the move. 1980 Blair & Ketchum's Country Jrnl. Oct. 28/2 October is the month when the woolly bear caterpillar, sometimes called a fuzzy-wuzzy or woolly worm, can be seen crossing country roads. 1983 Listener 27 Oct. 16/3 Our wall-to wall carpets attract the ‘woolly bear’ grubs of the carpet beetle. woolly boy n. a large hairy caterpillar, esp. the larva of the tiger-moth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy woubit1483 palmer1538 bear worm1577 furry1598 tailor-fly1682 woolly boy1805 tailor1816 woolly bear1863 miller1883 woolly worm1909 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > member of (tiger-moth) > larva or woolly bear woubit1483 woolly boy1805 woolly bear1863 1805 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 7 Nov. Like an immense caterpillar, such as, when we were children, we used to call Woolly Boys, from their hairy coat. woolly butt n. [butt n.⁶ 2b] an Australian name for species of Eucalyptus, esp. E. longifolia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees yellow box1662 gum tree1676 white gum tree1733 whip-stick1782 peppermint1790 red gum tree1790 red mahogany1798 white gum1798 box1801 blue gum1802 eucalyptus1809 box tree1819 black-butted gum1820 bloodwood1827 white ash1830 blackbutt1833 morrel1837 mountain ash1837 mallee scrub1845 apple gum1846 flooded gum1847 Moreton Bay ash1847 mallee1848 swamp gum1852 box-gum1855 manna gum1855 white top1856 river gum1860 grey box1861 woolly butt1862 marlock1863 fever tree1867 red ironbark1867 river white gum1867 karri1870 yellow jacket1876 eucalypt1877 yapunyah1878 coolibah1879 scribbly gum1883 forest mahogany1884 yellow jack1884 rose gum1885 Jimmy Low1887 nankeen gum1889 slaty gum1889 sugar-gum1889 apple box1890 Murray red gum1895 creek-gum1898 eucalyptian1901 forest red gum1904 river red gum1920 napunyah1921 whitewash gum1923 ghost gum1928 snow gum1928 Sydney blue gum1932 salmon gum1934 lapunyah1940 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Catal. Nat. & Industr. Products Queensland 25 Eucalyptus sp... Woolly Butt. 1912 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 247 Giant woolly-butt forests. woolly mammoth n. = mammoth n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > extinct types > mammoth mammoth1706 woolly mammoth1933 1933 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. xix. 376 The woolly mammoth was a form adapted to cold climates. 1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles xvi. 359 The presence of either the woolly mammoth or the reindeer does not necessarily indicate an arctic climate. 1976 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 16 May 6/1 The woolly mammoth..roamed the tundra areas. woolly sheep n. a variety of the Rocky Mountain sheep. Π 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. iii. 69 This animal is commonly called the mountain sheep, and is often confounded with another animal, the ‘woolly sheep’ found more to the northward. woolly worm n. U.S. a hairy caterpillar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy woubit1483 palmer1538 bear worm1577 furry1598 tailor-fly1682 woolly boy1805 tailor1816 woolly bear1863 miller1883 woolly worm1909 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wooly worm, the larva of any sawfly that covers itself with a white woolly secretion. 1911 E. Ferber Dawn O'Hara ii. 19 I'd eat wooly worms if I thought they might benefit me. 1972 E. Wigginton Foxfire Bk. 209 The woolly worm tells of a bad winter if: there are a lot of them crawling about. Draft additions March 2020 woolly pully n. originally British a woollen pullover sweater, esp. of a style worn by military personnel and reinforced with patches at the shoulders and elbows; cf. pully n.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. ΚΠ 1978 Observer 19 Nov. 28/9 For the first time the temperature rose to above jacket and woolly pully level. 1979 Daily Mail 11 Dec. 10 (advt.) What have the next 3½ years got to offer you? Action Adventure..Warfare Training Wardrooms Woolly Pullies [etc.]. 1981 J. Shortt Special Air Service 7/2 (caption) SBS soldier in ‘woolly pully’ and beige beret with SAS badge, photographed outside HQ Raiding Forces Middle East. 2011 A. Atkins Ranger xxi. 186 Two wore camo jackets, one wore a woolly pully, and the last was in a sleeveless T-shirt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1578
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