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• s  having a fluffy character or appearance
• s  confused and vague; used especially of thinking
  woolly thinking
  woolly-headed ideas
• s  covered with dense often matted or curly hairs
  woolly lambs
• s  covered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments
  the woolly aphid has a lanate coat resembling cotton

• Something Wild (Prometheus; United Artists) is somewhat woolly.
• Papua New Guinea lost more than a quarter of its forests from 1972 to 2002, and the BBC team noted that trees were being logged just 20 miles from where the Bosavi woolly rat was .
• In the spring, a young man's fancy; in the fall, woolly bear caterpillars have a brown band in their midriffs.

• flocculent
• wooly
• addled
• befuddled
• muddled
• muzzy
• woolly-headed
• wooly-minded
• wooly-haired
• woolly-haired
• lanate

News & Articles

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• Over The Top, Woolly Mammoths
  Bob doesn’t think we should clone a woolly mammoth.
  June 6, 2013 - The Daily Sentinel

Quotes

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• Tom Cruise in Ninemsn
  I have to tell you something,Cruise says at one point in the clip, which has apparently been edited by producers of the video to remove parts of his comments. "It's rough and tumble and it's wild and woolly and it's a blast, it's a blast,...
• Donald Gregg in The Associated Press
  That was a wild and woolly, swashbuckling time in the agency's history,Gregg said in an interview. "There was pressure from presidents for regime change here and there, and it was a very damaging time."
• David Geffen in Los Angeles Times
  We had a talk about that after the third season, one of many talks. But I just said, 'We've got to get these interceptions down to take the next step.' He goes, 'Listen, that's how I play the game. I'm just wild and woolly. ...... We made the... Mike Holmgren http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Holmgren&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGkk0nvYB4qJw3ag1cTFl0QZF6AuA Forbes http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.forbes.com/business/commerce/feeds/ap/2006/11/26/ap3203834.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGsCi7KfVn3Zq38-m14oc1PfGrlDw Nov 26, 2006 111005 145719 woolworth He is interested in quality in whatever he does," the Geffen associate said. "He has said that Woolworth is a perfectly good business. But he would prefer to run Tiffany's."