woolly
/ˈwʊli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat."
- "Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu."
- "woolly hair"
- "There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears."
- "My skin is black / My arms are long / My hair is woolly / My back is strong"
- "That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start."
Etymology
From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).