wooly

[ wool-ee ]

adjective

woolier wooliestplural: woolies

1. woolly.

Other Words From

• wooli·ness noun

Example Sentences

The Empire Strikes Back, for example, features Luke Skywalker riding a wooly tauntaun on the ice planet of Hoth.

From Popular-Science

This and the other meadows look unplanned—a little wooly in parts, tidier in others—but Charap and Rossi say they require more attention and foresight than simply mowing.

From Popular-Science

This hunting heritage goes back thousands of years, to the last ice age, when a remarkably ice-free Kobuk Valley teemed with big game, including the wooly mammoth.

From Outside Online

I was taken into one by Maurice, a gnarled old Vietnam vet in a wooly hat.

From The Daily Beast

Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.

From The Daily Beast

The problem with the Republican Party is there are too many wooly mammoths like me wandering around.

From The Daily Beast

He's a child's plaything—about as much use as the little wooly dog that lives down by the sawmill.

From Project Gutenberg

They stood about gracefully to be admired, with their wooly hair fluffed out at right angles to their head, for the occasion.

From Project Gutenberg

Nurse Farrow made a wry face as though she'd just discovered that the stuff she had in her mouth was a ball of wooly centipedes.

From Project Gutenberg

I'le make him think he's got straddle his wooly hoss, and an army of mermades was after him with red hot pitchforks.

From Project Gutenberg

One day I had to actually drive her out of my room, but it warn't but a little while before she put her wooly head in again.

From Project Gutenberg