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woolly
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woolly (sometimes US), wooly
1. consisting of, resembling, or having the nature of wool
2. covered or clothed in wool or something resembling it
3. Botany covered with long soft whitish hairs
4. US recalling the rough and lawless period of the early West of America (esp in the phrase wild and woolly)
5. Western US and Austral an informal word for sheep
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Another thing seems pretty clear, although with Ashton you never can tell, given that it is around his head that all the rumours of woolliness swirl.
In general terms, who's higher - Rob or Johnno? by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress, they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments and, without either lying or embellishing, thus lend to life vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting woolliness of the present.
The Art of Travel and the Art of Writing by Bill Gottlieb / Writing and Speaking community
But more importantly, the subtitle of this paper emphasises that family ethnicity is an essentially fictional concept that not only relies on one increasingly problematic concept--"a family"--but adds into this discussion another idea, ethnicity, the woolliness of which is becoming increasing apparent.
"Family ethnicity": knitting a jumper using two woolly concepts by Callister, Paul; Didham, Robert; Newell, Jamie; Potter, Deborah / Social Policy Journal of New Zealand
 
 
 
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