woolly

On the Northwest Coast of North America, for instance, some Indigenous communities bred small dogs with woolly coats specifically for their hair.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

A life-sized pink woolly mammoth, Ozzy Osbourne, and an old phone are among some of the subjects comedian and artist Joe Lycett hopes will inspire others to get creative.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

True or, most likely, false, those woolly claims and epic tales of derring-do aren’t the weirdest thing about Marx.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Gnawing, almost unbearable heartbreak acts as the catalyst for a layered analysis of the ways humans — or, in the case of “The Sheep Detectives,” humans and their woolly friends — ache to forget.

From Salon ● May 25, 2026

My mouth was hot and woolly, so I drank from the horse’s trough again.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Vampyrum bats prey mostly on birds they find by smell, whereas the woollies swoop down on rodents they hear rustling on the forest floor.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023

Locals in brown overalls, tweeds and woollies watch this enactment of merrie England, when armadas were seen off and men wore tights.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013

People who had raised money would often send letters and gifts to the crew, and as this account notes, the "ladies in Tottenham knitted woollies for the crew of their adopted ship".

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2010

Mrs. Groenewegen donned her woollies, put on a coat and overshoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But it'll be some time before they can bring up the woollies."

From The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings

Upon beginning “The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild,” the sixth feature in the animation franchise that grows woollier by the movie, you sense something amiss.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

Mr. Buck — who looks every bit the burl dealer, with his wool cap and even woollier beard — bought half a million pounds of redwood burls last year and is a presence on eBay.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2014

By contrast, the BOA likes to speak of fourth in the medal table as an "aspiration", preferring instead to focus on the woollier goal of "more medals in more sports than for over a century".

From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2012

The hardest job for a painter in Paris is to be original; the next hardest job is to be wilder and woollier than one's associates.

From Time Magazine Archive

The performance goes on for an hour, growing woollier and woollier in tone, and then dying out in sleep.

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley

And amid some of the woolliest spring weather in recent memory — drought, sleet, hard freezes, heat waves — my new native plantings are clambering out of the wood chips.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2010

At no event since the woolliest days of the Living Theater has the audience been such an integral part of the action.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because in the interim, it has become clear to even the woolliest that nuclear weapons are not the threat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The players enunciate all too perfectly some of the woolliest period dialogue of recent seasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were, as a matter of fact, excellent stockings of the heaviest, woolliest kind, and Whitman had bought them a year and a half ago in Scotland, whither he had gone after his wife's death.

From Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis