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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

'Wild and wooly'

What does 'wooly' mean in 'wild and wooly'?
  

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Woolly , not ' wooly '. html : This expression is of American origin and came into being to describe the 'wild' west of the country sometime after the Californian Gold Rush era of the 1850s. The US publication The Protestant Episcopal Quarterly Review and Church Register , 1855, included a reference to the "wild and woolly-haired Negillo", which is almost there .

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  • Woolly , not ' wooly '.
  • html : This expression is of American origin and came into being to describe the 'wild' west of the country sometime after the Californian Gold Rush era of the 1850s.
  • The US publication The Protestant Episcopal Quarterly Review and Church Register , 1855, included a reference to the "wild and woolly-haired Negillo", which is almost there .
  • Can you find out what woolly means in this context?
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Woolly, not 'wooly'.

According to http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/411900.html:

This expression is of American origin and came into being to describe the 'wild' west of the country sometime after the Californian Gold Rush era of the 1850s.
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