Definition of woolly in English:

woolly

(US wooly)

adjectivewoolliest, woollier ˈwʊliˈwʊli

1Made of wool.
羊毛制的
a red woolly hat
一顶红色羊毛帽。
Example sentencesExamples
- Mike put on the new bulky coat he'd gotten for Christmas, and the cap with woolly flaps that covered his ears.
- Like, that members of republican groups tend not to hang around in gangs on balconies wearing dark woolly jumpers and darker expressions.
- The word soon spread, and woolly tights became something of a must-have cult item with all us children on the mountain.
- Leave the thermals at home, forget the woolly hat and the three pairs of socks, and instead, don stylish sunglasses and a shirt.
- The suspects are described as white males with woolly hats and dark clothing.
- Her worn out old woolly overcoat finished off her appearance, thus she wasn't that surprised when a primly dressed young couple quickly averted their eyes from her as she crossed their front gate.
- Her face was still covered by the old woolly hood.
- Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen.
- I tucked my hair into a black woolly cap and went without my usual brightly coloured eye make-up so I'd have a nice clear base to work with.
- Someone had also covered her in warm woolly blankets, effectively keeping out the night's chill.
- "We are all wearing big woolly jumpers, so not many customers have noticed.
- I like to scrape the car, get the waterproofs and woolly hat on.
- But I need a hottie and a pair of woolly socks.
- He was wearing his official white and black club tracksuit and trademark woolly hat.
- On his feet he was wearing some sturdy walking boots and a few pairs of woolly socks.
- He had a black woolly hat and wore a khaki jacket with red scarf and gloves.
- Tried to get a pint at lunchtime only to find the entire bar stuffed with weirdo Liberals wearing kaftans and woolly sweaters, who had come all the way up from Cornwall to spend a week on a lost cause.
- It looked like a disgruntled teenage jellyfish forced to wear a woolly hat knitted by an overprotective mother.
- I wore my big, thick woolly tramping socks to work the other day.
- The suspect is described as white, 5ft 11 in, of stocky build, and wearing a woolly hat, denim jacket, a white T-shirt and dark jeans.
Synonyms
woollen, made of wool, wool, fleecy
1. 1.1 (of an animal, plant, or part) bearing or naturally covered with wool or hair resembling wool.
  （动植物）有羊毛（或羊毛状毛发）自然覆盖的
  woolly grey-green foliage
  the woolly aphid
  Example sentencesExamples
  One of the iconic images of Australia is the Merino sheep, an extremely woolly, arid-land adapted animal that is the backbone of our wool industry.
  Even a bear cuscus, a woolly marsupial found in Sulawesi's forests and normally a leaf-eater, won't turn down a succulent fig.
  Anyone got a handle on short, white, woolly giraffes?
  The man known as SuperBison truly has the strength of the woolly beast.
  Geologists say it probably once belonged to a woolly mammoth or a mastodon.
  When coupled with the appropriate sign, we knew exactly what she wanted - a snack, or to cuddle with her woolly stuffed animal.
  Beneath us, the grass-covered, flat-roofed huts of Gujjar shepherds, the flocks of woolly sheep, the sturdy ponies and their handlers all headed to Kongdori.
  He proposed that the woolly mammoths died during the Flood by a quick freeze.
  Well, it's not all about sweet little woolly creatures, you know.
  Your business either lets you go hunt the woolly mammoth or it doesn't.
  One of these species, the woolly rhino, is clearly shown in the cave paintings of early humans.
  Twenty-two sheep found themselves with a week's detention at Ingleton Middle School after the headmistress, Mary Parker, impounded the woolly creatures.
  In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb.
  The bones of mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lion, bison, and great Irish elk were found.
  Our textbooks were full of woolly mammals and cave men from the northern hemisphere but we knew very, very little of how the great Australian environment had responded to those events of the last Ice Age.
  Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
  I was thinking about this short-lived notoriety as I walked the hills with their scattering of sheep when I became aware of another fact about these woolly creatures.
  Large primates, such as the woolly monkey, are often hunted by rural villagers when other sources of protein are scarce.
  Synonyms
  fleecy, shaggy, hairy, fluffy
  wool-bearing
  rare flocculent, laniferous, lanigerous
2. 1.2 Resembling wool in texture or appearance.
  像羊毛的
  woolly wisps of cloud
  丝丝卷毛云。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The combination of bushy tail and woolly fur gives the animal a sort of unkempt, shaggy appearance.
  The fungus grows rapidly and morphologically appears woolly or fluffy.
  The surface is softened by carpets of woolly thyme planted between the stones.
  Or cut away infected new growth and scrub any remaining woolly patches on the bark with a toothbrush dipped in methylated spirits (labour intensive but worth it).
  Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity.
  She had woolly golden hair and blue Slovakian eyes.
  Usually three or four terminal or sub-terminal inflorescences arise together and these are covered with short woolly hairs.
  Squatting on all fours like some great beast of the forest, Erik shook his mane of wild auburn hair, scratched his woolly beard, and flared his nostrils as he took heavy breaths of cool air.
  Behind the coastline lies a bank of woolly cloud.
  The seasonal molt of their woolly winter hair makes them look even more wretched.
  Mohr reported on dominant inheritance of woolly hair.
  An aromatic woolly plant native to Crete, formerly believed to have magical powers.
  Their woolly hair was plastered with rain and muck.
  When I released it this morning, it merely hunched on the ground beneath a woolly bush, its feathers fluffed up, and grey as the overcast day.
  They look like huge slumbering monsters, wrapped in blankets of woolly cloud, their dark cheeks streaming with the tears of innumerable freshwater falls.
  It is all very well reading out these nice woolly, fluffy comments that the Minister has made, but the member knows that it is not fair.
  Synonyms
  downy
  technical floccose, lanate
2Vague or confused in expression or character.
（表述或特性）不鲜明的，混乱的
woolly thinking
混乱的思绪。
Example sentencesExamples
- The letter " Speed humps damage cars " is plain woolly thinking.
- Even then, it was based on a short and rather woolly statement.
- I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise.
- On your woolly criteria you would have to characterise the more than 50% of the population now said to oppose the war in Iraq as leftist.
- To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted.
- It's startling, difficult and rewarding: sometimes knotty with reference and allusion, sometimes woolly and vague.
- It's expressed in rather more woolly language but I accept what your Honour says.
- Lest that sound altogether woolly, I'll try and explain what I mean by this.
- Nice, our teachers told us, was vague, imprecise, woolly.
- "Several parishes have responded that the proposals are too woolly and open to inconsistent and individual interpretation.
- It's all a little vague and woolly at present, and nothing much will happen, as far as the consumer is concerned, for a year or two.
- My latest academic post here is another one of my attacks on the woolly thinking that is so characteristic of academic psychology.
- Labour has been vague and woolly with regard to the treaty settlement process up until now.
- He insists that the Heriot's amendment is too woolly to vote upon.
- The judges felt the Entitlement card idea was just too stupid, woolly and nebulous to win.
- The more detail that is demanded the better, because it will concentrate the minds of a group of people who tend to be hopelessly vague and woolly.
- To me, at least, the arguments have always seemed too woolly to be entirely convincing.
- Where doubt is talked about quite a bit in the Dharma is the sort of doubt that leaves one being vague and woolly, so you sort of think, oh, I can't meditate, or I could never be enlightened.
- This was negligence pure and simple, confused by an ill-fitting and woolly disguise of nuisance.
- The idea of group selection has been much criticized as woolly thinking in the past.
Synonyms
vague, ill-defined, hazy, unclear, unfocused, fuzzy, blurry, foggy, nebulous, imprecise, inexact, indefinite
confused, muddled, muddle-headed, disorganized
1. 2.1 (of a sound) indistinct or distorted.
  （声音）不清楚的，失真的
  an opaque and woolly recording
  不清晰且失真的录音。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Sovtek has a wooly sound, with a pronounced lower midrange.
  And how disappointing that the wooly sound quality obscures a lot of the detail - following the bass part with the score was well nigh impossible.

nounPlural woollies ˈwʊliˈwʊli

informal

1British A garment made of wool, especially a pullover.
〈主英〉毛线衣（尤指套头毛衣）
Example sentencesExamples
- The child confessed that hidden away, he had an old tobacco tin that smelt of his dad's woollies and whenever he really missed his dad, he would undo the tobacco tin and take a little sniff, but not too much, in case he used up the smell.
- As temperatures start to drop, out come the woollies, together with all manner of heating appliances - and fires - to make the nights and early mornings more bearable.
- Conversely, in spring, it can be sweltering and yet it is not officially ‘warm’ yet so the students have to stay wearing their winter woollies whilst the rest of the country has moved onto cool cottons.
- When they considered we had collected enough we would swap our woollies for the potatoes.
- Plunging temperatures yesterday had residents in the interior of the province reaching for their winter woollies and heaters as a cold front hit the Eastern Cape.
- Lord knows how we will all cope when the truly important stuff begins and people in curious woollies are hitting dimpled balls into little holes.
- Wearing winter woollies, the group huddled together outside Lancaster Farms last week with simple banners to highlight their pay dispute.
- Tell-tale splodges between the fingers, round the ankles and, in a couple of particularly bad cases, down the cleavage suggested that I wasn't the only one aghast at the effects of nine months swaddled in layers of woollies.
- And as we're approaching that time of year when we can throw off the winter woollies and bare our flesh to the summer sun, now's a good time to see how we can tone up.
- Bargain hunters snapped up everything from winter woollies to suits and evening wear.
- Anyway, at least I'm now justified in wearing woollies in August.
- As if this wasn't enough to leave me feeling low, my friend Beryl later charged into my house, through the sleet, shouting: ‘Honey, I shrunk the winter woollies!’
- I suggest you take a selection of different clothes including your winter woollies.
- Icy mornings, hail, sleet and snow have had everyone dusting off their winter woollies even though spring has officially sprung.
- Norse woollies do not have to mean complicated geometric patterns.
- She's too busy buying woollies for everyone else before Christmas, and will only come back to treat herself in the January sales.
- During the conference, when I was in the hotel, the air conditioning was so fierce I had to wear my woollies to keep warm.
- But she'd rather put on her woollies and galoshes and go splash in a puddle.
- Snow and heavy rainfalls were reported throughout the northern region of the Eastern Cape yesterday and residents were forced to take out winter woollies which had been packed away in anticipation of spring.
- ‘You actually do need some woollies and a warm jacket,’ says Charlotte.
Synonyms
knitted garment, woollen
2Australian NZ A sheep.
〈澳〉羊
Example sentencesExamples
- By the early 1900s, sheep were big business in Montana with 4.2 million of the woollies grazing the immense open ranges of the Big Sky Country.
- Pioneer historians were quick to notice that bighorn epidemics regularly followed the arrival of tame woollies.

Derivatives

woolliness

noun ˈwʊlɪnəsˈwʊlinəs

‘This man deserves the award for woolliness in his answers,’ countered Enda.
Example sentencesExamples
- You swipe your finger on this scanner, and software then tries to make up for your mental woolliness.
- In his books, journalism and pamphlets he likes to present himself as a serious counterweight to what he sees as the woolliness and scaremongering of environmentalists.
- On the other hand the idea of mental ecology could sort of sound a bit like new age woolliness.
- To expose the woolliness of this proposition takes a little bit of reasoning, but it is well worth the effort.

Rhymes

ampullae, bullae, bully, fully, Lully, pulley, Woolley

Definition of woolly in US English:

woolly

(US wooly)

adjectiveˈwʊliˈwo͝olē

1Made of wool.
羊毛制的
a red woolly hat
一顶红色羊毛帽。
Example sentencesExamples
- On his feet he was wearing some sturdy walking boots and a few pairs of woolly socks.
- Someone had also covered her in warm woolly blankets, effectively keeping out the night's chill.
- Like, that members of republican groups tend not to hang around in gangs on balconies wearing dark woolly jumpers and darker expressions.
- Her worn out old woolly overcoat finished off her appearance, thus she wasn't that surprised when a primly dressed young couple quickly averted their eyes from her as she crossed their front gate.
- I wore my big, thick woolly tramping socks to work the other day.
- It looked like a disgruntled teenage jellyfish forced to wear a woolly hat knitted by an overprotective mother.
- He had a black woolly hat and wore a khaki jacket with red scarf and gloves.
- Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen.
- Her face was still covered by the old woolly hood.
- I like to scrape the car, get the waterproofs and woolly hat on.
- "We are all wearing big woolly jumpers, so not many customers have noticed.
- But I need a hottie and a pair of woolly socks.
- The word soon spread, and woolly tights became something of a must-have cult item with all us children on the mountain.
- He was wearing his official white and black club tracksuit and trademark woolly hat.
- I tucked my hair into a black woolly cap and went without my usual brightly coloured eye make-up so I'd have a nice clear base to work with.
- Leave the thermals at home, forget the woolly hat and the three pairs of socks, and instead, don stylish sunglasses and a shirt.
- Mike put on the new bulky coat he'd gotten for Christmas, and the cap with woolly flaps that covered his ears.
- Tried to get a pint at lunchtime only to find the entire bar stuffed with weirdo Liberals wearing kaftans and woolly sweaters, who had come all the way up from Cornwall to spend a week on a lost cause.
- The suspect is described as white, 5ft 11 in, of stocky build, and wearing a woolly hat, denim jacket, a white T-shirt and dark jeans.
- The suspects are described as white males with woolly hats and dark clothing.
Synonyms
woollen, made of wool, wool, fleecy
1. 1.1 (of an animal, plant, or part) bearing or naturally covered with wool or hair resembling wool.
  （动植物）有羊毛（或羊毛状毛发）自然覆盖的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb.
  I was thinking about this short-lived notoriety as I walked the hills with their scattering of sheep when I became aware of another fact about these woolly creatures.
  One of these species, the woolly rhino, is clearly shown in the cave paintings of early humans.
  The man known as SuperBison truly has the strength of the woolly beast.
  Our textbooks were full of woolly mammals and cave men from the northern hemisphere but we knew very, very little of how the great Australian environment had responded to those events of the last Ice Age.
  Even a bear cuscus, a woolly marsupial found in Sulawesi's forests and normally a leaf-eater, won't turn down a succulent fig.
  He proposed that the woolly mammoths died during the Flood by a quick freeze.
  One of the iconic images of Australia is the Merino sheep, an extremely woolly, arid-land adapted animal that is the backbone of our wool industry.
  Geologists say it probably once belonged to a woolly mammoth or a mastodon.
  When coupled with the appropriate sign, we knew exactly what she wanted - a snack, or to cuddle with her woolly stuffed animal.
  Beneath us, the grass-covered, flat-roofed huts of Gujjar shepherds, the flocks of woolly sheep, the sturdy ponies and their handlers all headed to Kongdori.
  Large primates, such as the woolly monkey, are often hunted by rural villagers when other sources of protein are scarce.
  The bones of mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lion, bison, and great Irish elk were found.
  Your business either lets you go hunt the woolly mammoth or it doesn't.
  Twenty-two sheep found themselves with a week's detention at Ingleton Middle School after the headmistress, Mary Parker, impounded the woolly creatures.
  Anyone got a handle on short, white, woolly giraffes?
  Well, it's not all about sweet little woolly creatures, you know.
  Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
  Synonyms
  fleecy, shaggy, hairy, fluffy
2. 1.2 Resembling wool in texture or appearance.
  像羊毛的
  woolly wisps of cloud
  丝丝卷毛云。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She had woolly golden hair and blue Slovakian eyes.
  The combination of bushy tail and woolly fur gives the animal a sort of unkempt, shaggy appearance.
  Mohr reported on dominant inheritance of woolly hair.
  When I released it this morning, it merely hunched on the ground beneath a woolly bush, its feathers fluffed up, and grey as the overcast day.
  Usually three or four terminal or sub-terminal inflorescences arise together and these are covered with short woolly hairs.
  Or cut away infected new growth and scrub any remaining woolly patches on the bark with a toothbrush dipped in methylated spirits (labour intensive but worth it).
  The surface is softened by carpets of woolly thyme planted between the stones.
  Behind the coastline lies a bank of woolly cloud.
  They look like huge slumbering monsters, wrapped in blankets of woolly cloud, their dark cheeks streaming with the tears of innumerable freshwater falls.
  Squatting on all fours like some great beast of the forest, Erik shook his mane of wild auburn hair, scratched his woolly beard, and flared his nostrils as he took heavy breaths of cool air.
  The seasonal molt of their woolly winter hair makes them look even more wretched.
  An aromatic woolly plant native to Crete, formerly believed to have magical powers.
  It is all very well reading out these nice woolly, fluffy comments that the Minister has made, but the member knows that it is not fair.
  Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity.
  The fungus grows rapidly and morphologically appears woolly or fluffy.
  Their woolly hair was plastered with rain and muck.
  Synonyms
  downy
2Vague or confused in expression or character.
（表述或特性）不鲜明的，混乱的
woolly thinking
混乱的思绪。
Example sentencesExamples
- I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise.
- This was negligence pure and simple, confused by an ill-fitting and woolly disguise of nuisance.
- Lest that sound altogether woolly, I'll try and explain what I mean by this.
- On your woolly criteria you would have to characterise the more than 50% of the population now said to oppose the war in Iraq as leftist.
- It's startling, difficult and rewarding: sometimes knotty with reference and allusion, sometimes woolly and vague.
- Nice, our teachers told us, was vague, imprecise, woolly.
- It's expressed in rather more woolly language but I accept what your Honour says.
- He insists that the Heriot's amendment is too woolly to vote upon.
- Even then, it was based on a short and rather woolly statement.
- Where doubt is talked about quite a bit in the Dharma is the sort of doubt that leaves one being vague and woolly, so you sort of think, oh, I can't meditate, or I could never be enlightened.
- The letter " Speed humps damage cars " is plain woolly thinking.
- "Several parishes have responded that the proposals are too woolly and open to inconsistent and individual interpretation.
- The more detail that is demanded the better, because it will concentrate the minds of a group of people who tend to be hopelessly vague and woolly.
- My latest academic post here is another one of my attacks on the woolly thinking that is so characteristic of academic psychology.
- Labour has been vague and woolly with regard to the treaty settlement process up until now.
- To me, at least, the arguments have always seemed too woolly to be entirely convincing.
- The judges felt the Entitlement card idea was just too stupid, woolly and nebulous to win.
- To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted.
- The idea of group selection has been much criticized as woolly thinking in the past.
- It's all a little vague and woolly at present, and nothing much will happen, as far as the consumer is concerned, for a year or two.
Synonyms
vague, ill-defined, hazy, unclear, unfocused, fuzzy, blurry, foggy, nebulous, imprecise, inexact, indefinite
1. 2.1 (of a sound) indistinct or distorted.
  （声音）不清楚的，失真的
  an opaque and woolly recording
  不清晰且失真的录音。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And how disappointing that the wooly sound quality obscures a lot of the detail - following the bass part with the score was well nigh impossible.
  The Sovtek has a wooly sound, with a pronounced lower midrange.

nounˈwʊliˈwo͝olē

informal

1usually woolliesBritish A garment made of wool, especially a pullover.
〈主英〉毛线衣（尤指套头毛衣）
Example sentencesExamples
- Icy mornings, hail, sleet and snow have had everyone dusting off their winter woollies even though spring has officially sprung.
- ‘You actually do need some woollies and a warm jacket,’ says Charlotte.
- Conversely, in spring, it can be sweltering and yet it is not officially ‘warm’ yet so the students have to stay wearing their winter woollies whilst the rest of the country has moved onto cool cottons.
- As if this wasn't enough to leave me feeling low, my friend Beryl later charged into my house, through the sleet, shouting: ‘Honey, I shrunk the winter woollies!’
- Anyway, at least I'm now justified in wearing woollies in August.
- I suggest you take a selection of different clothes including your winter woollies.
- Wearing winter woollies, the group huddled together outside Lancaster Farms last week with simple banners to highlight their pay dispute.
- Bargain hunters snapped up everything from winter woollies to suits and evening wear.
- And as we're approaching that time of year when we can throw off the winter woollies and bare our flesh to the summer sun, now's a good time to see how we can tone up.
- During the conference, when I was in the hotel, the air conditioning was so fierce I had to wear my woollies to keep warm.
- Lord knows how we will all cope when the truly important stuff begins and people in curious woollies are hitting dimpled balls into little holes.
- She's too busy buying woollies for everyone else before Christmas, and will only come back to treat herself in the January sales.
- When they considered we had collected enough we would swap our woollies for the potatoes.
- Tell-tale splodges between the fingers, round the ankles and, in a couple of particularly bad cases, down the cleavage suggested that I wasn't the only one aghast at the effects of nine months swaddled in layers of woollies.
- As temperatures start to drop, out come the woollies, together with all manner of heating appliances - and fires - to make the nights and early mornings more bearable.
- The child confessed that hidden away, he had an old tobacco tin that smelt of his dad's woollies and whenever he really missed his dad, he would undo the tobacco tin and take a little sniff, but not too much, in case he used up the smell.
- But she'd rather put on her woollies and galoshes and go splash in a puddle.
- Norse woollies do not have to mean complicated geometric patterns.
- Plunging temperatures yesterday had residents in the interior of the province reaching for their winter woollies and heaters as a cold front hit the Eastern Cape.
- Snow and heavy rainfalls were reported throughout the northern region of the Eastern Cape yesterday and residents were forced to take out winter woollies which had been packed away in anticipation of spring.
Synonyms
knitted garment, woollen
2Australian NZ A sheep.
〈澳〉羊
Example sentencesExamples
- Pioneer historians were quick to notice that bighorn epidemics regularly followed the arrival of tame woollies.
- By the early 1900s, sheep were big business in Montana with 4.2 million of the woollies grazing the immense open ranges of the Big Sky Country.

词汇	woolly
释义	Definition of woolly in English: woolly (US wooly) adjectivewoolliest, woollier ˈwʊliˈwʊli 1Made of wool. 羊毛制的 a red woolly hat 一顶红色羊毛帽。 Example sentencesExamples Mike put on the new bulky coat he'd gotten for Christmas, and the cap with woolly flaps that covered his ears. Like, that members of republican groups tend not to hang around in gangs on balconies wearing dark woolly jumpers and darker expressions. The word soon spread, and woolly tights became something of a must-have cult item with all us children on the mountain. Leave the thermals at home, forget the woolly hat and the three pairs of socks, and instead, don stylish sunglasses and a shirt. The suspects are described as white males with woolly hats and dark clothing. Her worn out old woolly overcoat finished off her appearance, thus she wasn't that surprised when a primly dressed young couple quickly averted their eyes from her as she crossed their front gate. Her face was still covered by the old woolly hood. Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen. I tucked my hair into a black woolly cap and went without my usual brightly coloured eye make-up so I'd have a nice clear base to work with. Someone had also covered her in warm woolly blankets, effectively keeping out the night's chill. "We are all wearing big woolly jumpers, so not many customers have noticed. I like to scrape the car, get the waterproofs and woolly hat on. But I need a hottie and a pair of woolly socks. He was wearing his official white and black club tracksuit and trademark woolly hat. On his feet he was wearing some sturdy walking boots and a few pairs of woolly socks. He had a black woolly hat and wore a khaki jacket with red scarf and gloves. Tried to get a pint at lunchtime only to find the entire bar stuffed with weirdo Liberals wearing kaftans and woolly sweaters, who had come all the way up from Cornwall to spend a week on a lost cause. It looked like a disgruntled teenage jellyfish forced to wear a woolly hat knitted by an overprotective mother. I wore my big, thick woolly tramping socks to work the other day. The suspect is described as white, 5ft 11 in, of stocky build, and wearing a woolly hat, denim jacket, a white T-shirt and dark jeans. Synonyms woollen, made of wool, wool, fleecy 1.1 (of an animal, plant, or part) bearing or naturally covered with wool or hair resembling wool. （动植物）有羊毛（或羊毛状毛发）自然覆盖的 woolly grey-green foliage the woolly aphid Example sentencesExamples One of the iconic images of Australia is the Merino sheep, an extremely woolly, arid-land adapted animal that is the backbone of our wool industry. Even a bear cuscus, a woolly marsupial found in Sulawesi's forests and normally a leaf-eater, won't turn down a succulent fig. Anyone got a handle on short, white, woolly giraffes? The man known as SuperBison truly has the strength of the woolly beast. Geologists say it probably once belonged to a woolly mammoth or a mastodon. When coupled with the appropriate sign, we knew exactly what she wanted - a snack, or to cuddle with her woolly stuffed animal. Beneath us, the grass-covered, flat-roofed huts of Gujjar shepherds, the flocks of woolly sheep, the sturdy ponies and their handlers all headed to Kongdori. He proposed that the woolly mammoths died during the Flood by a quick freeze. Well, it's not all about sweet little woolly creatures, you know. Your business either lets you go hunt the woolly mammoth or it doesn't. One of these species, the woolly rhino, is clearly shown in the cave paintings of early humans. Twenty-two sheep found themselves with a week's detention at Ingleton Middle School after the headmistress, Mary Parker, impounded the woolly creatures. In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb. The bones of mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lion, bison, and great Irish elk were found. Our textbooks were full of woolly mammals and cave men from the northern hemisphere but we knew very, very little of how the great Australian environment had responded to those events of the last Ice Age. Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena. I was thinking about this short-lived notoriety as I walked the hills with their scattering of sheep when I became aware of another fact about these woolly creatures. Large primates, such as the woolly monkey, are often hunted by rural villagers when other sources of protein are scarce. Synonyms fleecy, shaggy, hairy, fluffy wool-bearing rare flocculent, laniferous, lanigerous 1.2 Resembling wool in texture or appearance. 像羊毛的 woolly wisps of cloud 丝丝卷毛云。 Example sentencesExamples The combination of bushy tail and woolly fur gives the animal a sort of unkempt, shaggy appearance. The fungus grows rapidly and morphologically appears woolly or fluffy. The surface is softened by carpets of woolly thyme planted between the stones. Or cut away infected new growth and scrub any remaining woolly patches on the bark with a toothbrush dipped in methylated spirits (labour intensive but worth it). Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity. She had woolly golden hair and blue Slovakian eyes. Usually three or four terminal or sub-terminal inflorescences arise together and these are covered with short woolly hairs. Squatting on all fours like some great beast of the forest, Erik shook his mane of wild auburn hair, scratched his woolly beard, and flared his nostrils as he took heavy breaths of cool air. Behind the coastline lies a bank of woolly cloud. The seasonal molt of their woolly winter hair makes them look even more wretched. Mohr reported on dominant inheritance of woolly hair. An aromatic woolly plant native to Crete, formerly believed to have magical powers. Their woolly hair was plastered with rain and muck. When I released it this morning, it merely hunched on the ground beneath a woolly bush, its feathers fluffed up, and grey as the overcast day. They look like huge slumbering monsters, wrapped in blankets of woolly cloud, their dark cheeks streaming with the tears of innumerable freshwater falls. It is all very well reading out these nice woolly, fluffy comments that the Minister has made, but the member knows that it is not fair. Synonyms downy technical floccose, lanate 2Vague or confused in expression or character. （表述或特性）不鲜明的，混乱的 woolly thinking 混乱的思绪。 Example sentencesExamples The letter " Speed humps damage cars " is plain woolly thinking. Even then, it was based on a short and rather woolly statement. I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise. On your woolly criteria you would have to characterise the more than 50% of the population now said to oppose the war in Iraq as leftist. To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted. It's startling, difficult and rewarding: sometimes knotty with reference and allusion, sometimes woolly and vague. It's expressed in rather more woolly language but I accept what your Honour says. Lest that sound altogether woolly, I'll try and explain what I mean by this. Nice, our teachers told us, was vague, imprecise, woolly. "Several parishes have responded that the proposals are too woolly and open to inconsistent and individual interpretation. It's all a little vague and woolly at present, and nothing much will happen, as far as the consumer is concerned, for a year or two. My latest academic post here is another one of my attacks on the woolly thinking that is so characteristic of academic psychology. Labour has been vague and woolly with regard to the treaty settlement process up until now. He insists that the Heriot's amendment is too woolly to vote upon. The judges felt the Entitlement card idea was just too stupid, woolly and nebulous to win. The more detail that is demanded the better, because it will concentrate the minds of a group of people who tend to be hopelessly vague and woolly. To me, at least, the arguments have always seemed too woolly to be entirely convincing. Where doubt is talked about quite a bit in the Dharma is the sort of doubt that leaves one being vague and woolly, so you sort of think, oh, I can't meditate, or I could never be enlightened. This was negligence pure and simple, confused by an ill-fitting and woolly disguise of nuisance. The idea of group selection has been much criticized as woolly thinking in the past. Synonyms vague, ill-defined, hazy, unclear, unfocused, fuzzy, blurry, foggy, nebulous, imprecise, inexact, indefinite confused, muddled, muddle-headed, disorganized 2.1 (of a sound) indistinct or distorted. （声音）不清楚的，失真的 an opaque and woolly recording 不清晰且失真的录音。 Example sentencesExamples The Sovtek has a wooly sound, with a pronounced lower midrange. And how disappointing that the wooly sound quality obscures a lot of the detail - following the bass part with the score was well nigh impossible. nounPlural woollies ˈwʊliˈwʊli informal 1British A garment made of wool, especially a pullover. 〈主英〉毛线衣（尤指套头毛衣） Example sentencesExamples The child confessed that hidden away, he had an old tobacco tin that smelt of his dad's woollies and whenever he really missed his dad, he would undo the tobacco tin and take a little sniff, but not too much, in case he used up the smell. As temperatures start to drop, out come the woollies, together with all manner of heating appliances - and fires - to make the nights and early mornings more bearable. Conversely, in spring, it can be sweltering and yet it is not officially ‘warm’ yet so the students have to stay wearing their winter woollies whilst the rest of the country has moved onto cool cottons. When they considered we had collected enough we would swap our woollies for the potatoes. Plunging temperatures yesterday had residents in the interior of the province reaching for their winter woollies and heaters as a cold front hit the Eastern Cape. Lord knows how we will all cope when the truly important stuff begins and people in curious woollies are hitting dimpled balls into little holes. Wearing winter woollies, the group huddled together outside Lancaster Farms last week with simple banners to highlight their pay dispute. Tell-tale splodges between the fingers, round the ankles and, in a couple of particularly bad cases, down the cleavage suggested that I wasn't the only one aghast at the effects of nine months swaddled in layers of woollies. And as we're approaching that time of year when we can throw off the winter woollies and bare our flesh to the summer sun, now's a good time to see how we can tone up. Bargain hunters snapped up everything from winter woollies to suits and evening wear. Anyway, at least I'm now justified in wearing woollies in August. As if this wasn't enough to leave me feeling low, my friend Beryl later charged into my house, through the sleet, shouting: ‘Honey, I shrunk the winter woollies!’ I suggest you take a selection of different clothes including your winter woollies. Icy mornings, hail, sleet and snow have had everyone dusting off their winter woollies even though spring has officially sprung. Norse woollies do not have to mean complicated geometric patterns. She's too busy buying woollies for everyone else before Christmas, and will only come back to treat herself in the January sales. During the conference, when I was in the hotel, the air conditioning was so fierce I had to wear my woollies to keep warm. But she'd rather put on her woollies and galoshes and go splash in a puddle. Snow and heavy rainfalls were reported throughout the northern region of the Eastern Cape yesterday and residents were forced to take out winter woollies which had been packed away in anticipation of spring. ‘You actually do need some woollies and a warm jacket,’ says Charlotte. Synonyms knitted garment, woollen 2Australian NZ A sheep. 〈澳〉羊 Example sentencesExamples By the early 1900s, sheep were big business in Montana with 4.2 million of the woollies grazing the immense open ranges of the Big Sky Country. Pioneer historians were quick to notice that bighorn epidemics regularly followed the arrival of tame woollies. Derivatives woolliness noun ˈwʊlɪnəsˈwʊlinəs ‘This man deserves the award for woolliness in his answers,’ countered Enda. Example sentencesExamples You swipe your finger on this scanner, and software then tries to make up for your mental woolliness. In his books, journalism and pamphlets he likes to present himself as a serious counterweight to what he sees as the woolliness and scaremongering of environmentalists. On the other hand the idea of mental ecology could sort of sound a bit like new age woolliness. To expose the woolliness of this proposition takes a little bit of reasoning, but it is well worth the effort. Rhymes ampullae, bullae, bully, fully, Lully, pulley, Woolley Definition of woolly in US English: woolly (US wooly) adjectiveˈwʊliˈwo͝olē 1Made of wool. 羊毛制的 a red woolly hat 一顶红色羊毛帽。 Example sentencesExamples On his feet he was wearing some sturdy walking boots and a few pairs of woolly socks. Someone had also covered her in warm woolly blankets, effectively keeping out the night's chill. Like, that members of republican groups tend not to hang around in gangs on balconies wearing dark woolly jumpers and darker expressions. Her worn out old woolly overcoat finished off her appearance, thus she wasn't that surprised when a primly dressed young couple quickly averted their eyes from her as she crossed their front gate. I wore my big, thick woolly tramping socks to work the other day. It looked like a disgruntled teenage jellyfish forced to wear a woolly hat knitted by an overprotective mother. He had a black woolly hat and wore a khaki jacket with red scarf and gloves. Only by donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen. Her face was still covered by the old woolly hood. I like to scrape the car, get the waterproofs and woolly hat on. "We are all wearing big woolly jumpers, so not many customers have noticed. But I need a hottie and a pair of woolly socks. The word soon spread, and woolly tights became something of a must-have cult item with all us children on the mountain. He was wearing his official white and black club tracksuit and trademark woolly hat. I tucked my hair into a black woolly cap and went without my usual brightly coloured eye make-up so I'd have a nice clear base to work with. Leave the thermals at home, forget the woolly hat and the three pairs of socks, and instead, don stylish sunglasses and a shirt. Mike put on the new bulky coat he'd gotten for Christmas, and the cap with woolly flaps that covered his ears. Tried to get a pint at lunchtime only to find the entire bar stuffed with weirdo Liberals wearing kaftans and woolly sweaters, who had come all the way up from Cornwall to spend a week on a lost cause. The suspect is described as white, 5ft 11 in, of stocky build, and wearing a woolly hat, denim jacket, a white T-shirt and dark jeans. The suspects are described as white males with woolly hats and dark clothing. Synonyms woollen, made of wool, wool, fleecy 1.1 (of an animal, plant, or part) bearing or naturally covered with wool or hair resembling wool. （动植物）有羊毛（或羊毛状毛发）自然覆盖的 Example sentencesExamples In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb. I was thinking about this short-lived notoriety as I walked the hills with their scattering of sheep when I became aware of another fact about these woolly creatures. One of these species, the woolly rhino, is clearly shown in the cave paintings of early humans. The man known as SuperBison truly has the strength of the woolly beast. Our textbooks were full of woolly mammals and cave men from the northern hemisphere but we knew very, very little of how the great Australian environment had responded to those events of the last Ice Age. Even a bear cuscus, a woolly marsupial found in Sulawesi's forests and normally a leaf-eater, won't turn down a succulent fig. He proposed that the woolly mammoths died during the Flood by a quick freeze. One of the iconic images of Australia is the Merino sheep, an extremely woolly, arid-land adapted animal that is the backbone of our wool industry. Geologists say it probably once belonged to a woolly mammoth or a mastodon. When coupled with the appropriate sign, we knew exactly what she wanted - a snack, or to cuddle with her woolly stuffed animal. Beneath us, the grass-covered, flat-roofed huts of Gujjar shepherds, the flocks of woolly sheep, the sturdy ponies and their handlers all headed to Kongdori. Large primates, such as the woolly monkey, are often hunted by rural villagers when other sources of protein are scarce. The bones of mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lion, bison, and great Irish elk were found. Your business either lets you go hunt the woolly mammoth or it doesn't. Twenty-two sheep found themselves with a week's detention at Ingleton Middle School after the headmistress, Mary Parker, impounded the woolly creatures. Anyone got a handle on short, white, woolly giraffes? Well, it's not all about sweet little woolly creatures, you know. Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena. Synonyms fleecy, shaggy, hairy, fluffy 1.2 Resembling wool in texture or appearance. 像羊毛的 woolly wisps of cloud 丝丝卷毛云。 Example sentencesExamples She had woolly golden hair and blue Slovakian eyes. The combination of bushy tail and woolly fur gives the animal a sort of unkempt, shaggy appearance. Mohr reported on dominant inheritance of woolly hair. When I released it this morning, it merely hunched on the ground beneath a woolly bush, its feathers fluffed up, and grey as the overcast day. Usually three or four terminal or sub-terminal inflorescences arise together and these are covered with short woolly hairs. Or cut away infected new growth and scrub any remaining woolly patches on the bark with a toothbrush dipped in methylated spirits (labour intensive but worth it). The surface is softened by carpets of woolly thyme planted between the stones. Behind the coastline lies a bank of woolly cloud. They look like huge slumbering monsters, wrapped in blankets of woolly cloud, their dark cheeks streaming with the tears of innumerable freshwater falls. Squatting on all fours like some great beast of the forest, Erik shook his mane of wild auburn hair, scratched his woolly beard, and flared his nostrils as he took heavy breaths of cool air. The seasonal molt of their woolly winter hair makes them look even more wretched. An aromatic woolly plant native to Crete, formerly believed to have magical powers. It is all very well reading out these nice woolly, fluffy comments that the Minister has made, but the member knows that it is not fair. Male lions develop thick woolly manes on the neck and shoulders, signifying maturity. The fungus grows rapidly and morphologically appears woolly or fluffy. Their woolly hair was plastered with rain and muck. Synonyms downy 2Vague or confused in expression or character. （表述或特性）不鲜明的，混乱的 woolly thinking 混乱的思绪。 Example sentencesExamples I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise. This was negligence pure and simple, confused by an ill-fitting and woolly disguise of nuisance. Lest that sound altogether woolly, I'll try and explain what I mean by this. On your woolly criteria you would have to characterise the more than 50% of the population now said to oppose the war in Iraq as leftist. It's startling, difficult and rewarding: sometimes knotty with reference and allusion, sometimes woolly and vague. Nice, our teachers told us, was vague, imprecise, woolly. It's expressed in rather more woolly language but I accept what your Honour says. He insists that the Heriot's amendment is too woolly to vote upon. Even then, it was based on a short and rather woolly statement. Where doubt is talked about quite a bit in the Dharma is the sort of doubt that leaves one being vague and woolly, so you sort of think, oh, I can't meditate, or I could never be enlightened. The letter " Speed humps damage cars " is plain woolly thinking. "Several parishes have responded that the proposals are too woolly and open to inconsistent and individual interpretation. The more detail that is demanded the better, because it will concentrate the minds of a group of people who tend to be hopelessly vague and woolly. My latest academic post here is another one of my attacks on the woolly thinking that is so characteristic of academic psychology. Labour has been vague and woolly with regard to the treaty settlement process up until now. To me, at least, the arguments have always seemed too woolly to be entirely convincing. The judges felt the Entitlement card idea was just too stupid, woolly and nebulous to win. To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted. The idea of group selection has been much criticized as woolly thinking in the past. It's all a little vague and woolly at present, and nothing much will happen, as far as the consumer is concerned, for a year or two. Synonyms vague, ill-defined, hazy, unclear, unfocused, fuzzy, blurry, foggy, nebulous, imprecise, inexact, indefinite 2.1 (of a sound) indistinct or distorted. （声音）不清楚的，失真的 an opaque and woolly recording 不清晰且失真的录音。 Example sentencesExamples And how disappointing that the wooly sound quality obscures a lot of the detail - following the bass part with the score was well nigh impossible. The Sovtek has a wooly sound, with a pronounced lower midrange. nounˈwʊliˈwo͝olē informal 1usually woolliesBritish A garment made of wool, especially a pullover. 〈主英〉毛线衣（尤指套头毛衣） Example sentencesExamples Icy mornings, hail, sleet and snow have had everyone dusting off their winter woollies even though spring has officially sprung. ‘You actually do need some woollies and a warm jacket,’ says Charlotte. Conversely, in spring, it can be sweltering and yet it is not officially ‘warm’ yet so the students have to stay wearing their winter woollies whilst the rest of the country has moved onto cool cottons. As if this wasn't enough to leave me feeling low, my friend Beryl later charged into my house, through the sleet, shouting: ‘Honey, I shrunk the winter woollies!’ Anyway, at least I'm now justified in wearing woollies in August. I suggest you take a selection of different clothes including your winter woollies. Wearing winter woollies, the group huddled together outside Lancaster Farms last week with simple banners to highlight their pay dispute. Bargain hunters snapped up everything from winter woollies to suits and evening wear. And as we're approaching that time of year when we can throw off the winter woollies and bare our flesh to the summer sun, now's a good time to see how we can tone up. During the conference, when I was in the hotel, the air conditioning was so fierce I had to wear my woollies to keep warm. Lord knows how we will all cope when the truly important stuff begins and people in curious woollies are hitting dimpled balls into little holes. She's too busy buying woollies for everyone else before Christmas, and will only come back to treat herself in the January sales. When they considered we had collected enough we would swap our woollies for the potatoes. Tell-tale splodges between the fingers, round the ankles and, in a couple of particularly bad cases, down the cleavage suggested that I wasn't the only one aghast at the effects of nine months swaddled in layers of woollies. As temperatures start to drop, out come the woollies, together with all manner of heating appliances - and fires - to make the nights and early mornings more bearable. The child confessed that hidden away, he had an old tobacco tin that smelt of his dad's woollies and whenever he really missed his dad, he would undo the tobacco tin and take a little sniff, but not too much, in case he used up the smell. But she'd rather put on her woollies and galoshes and go splash in a puddle. Norse woollies do not have to mean complicated geometric patterns. Plunging temperatures yesterday had residents in the interior of the province reaching for their winter woollies and heaters as a cold front hit the Eastern Cape. Snow and heavy rainfalls were reported throughout the northern region of the Eastern Cape yesterday and residents were forced to take out winter woollies which had been packed away in anticipation of spring. Synonyms knitted garment, woollen 2Australian NZ A sheep. 〈澳〉羊 Example sentencesExamples Pioneer historians were quick to notice that bighorn epidemics regularly followed the arrival of tame woollies. By the early 1900s, sheep were big business in Montana with 4.2 million of the woollies grazing the immense open ranges of the Big Sky Country.
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