wooly

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y.

"Oh those are wooly coats belonging to the little lambs at Skelghyl." — A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories, Beatrix Potter
Her shoulders ached--her head seemed a stuffy thing of wood and wooly lint. — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore
However, they formed themselves into line, all assisting, owing to the importance of the search; the dairyman at the upper end with Mr Clare, who had volunteered to help; then Tess, Marian, Izz Huett, and Retty; then Bill Lewell, Jonathan, and the married dairywomen—Beck Knibbs, with her wooly black hair and rolling eyes; and flaxen Frances, consumptive from the winter damps of the water-meads—who lived in their respective cottages. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy

flocculent, woolly

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