woolly

Meanings

Adjective

• Made of wool.
• Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
• Based on emotions rather than logic.
• Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
• Clothed in wool.

Noun

• A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
• A sheep not yet shorn.
• A piece of woolwork.
• A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.

Origin

• From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich, Dutch wollig, German wohlig, Swedish ullig.
• From woolyback.