woolly
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Is woolly a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of woolly?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.Examples: "That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start."; "To call David Lean's Dr Zhivago a translation of Pasternak's novel is not only to disregard the specificity of film art, but to make such woolly use of the word ‘translation’ as to fit it to refer to any kind of transformation. Knitting included."figuratively
2. (obsolete) Clothed in wool.Examples: "woolly breeders"obsolete
3. (slang, archaic) Cross; irritable.Examples: "[…] and don't get woolly because some of your little "deals" don't come off. You'd soon consider yourself the superior of God Almighty Himself if He didn't set you in your place once in a while."archaicslang
noun (English)
1. (informal) A sweater or similar garment made of wool.Examples: "`I've got a rotten cold and I'm not taking my woollies off until it's better.'"; "Being an innocent Australian abroad in a European winter, I had taken with me every winter woolly I could borrow or squeeze out of friends and associates."informal
2. (US, slang) A sheep not yet shorn.USslang
noun (English)
1. (Liverpool slang, derogatory) A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.derogatory
Definition source: Wiktionary