Usually means: Resembling or made of wool.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word woolly:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. woolly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. woolly: Merriam-Webster
  3. woolly, woolly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. woolly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. woolly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. woolly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Woolly, woolly: Wordnik
  8. woolly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. woolly: Wiktionary
  10. woolly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. woolly (wooly): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. woolly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. woolly: Dictionary.com
  14. Woolly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. woolly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. woolly: Rhymezone
  17. Woolly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. woolly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. woolly: FreeDictionary.org
  20. woolly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Woolly: The Word Detective
  22. woolly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Woolly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. woolly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. woolly: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. woolly: Rhododendron Glossary
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. woolly, woolly, woolly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. woolly: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. woolly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See woolies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Made of wool.
adjective:  Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
adjective:  (figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
adjective:  (obsolete) Clothed in wool.
adjective:  (slang, archaic) Cross; irritable.
noun:  (informal) A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
noun:  (US, slang) A sheep not yet shorn.
noun:  A piece of woolwork.
noun:  (Liverpool slang, derogatory) A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.

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