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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Woolly

Can you please tell me what a woolly person is like?

Unfortunately, there isn't much context, because the sentence I've heard is something like "She's the wooliest woman I've ever seen."
  

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It could mean that she does not think clearly or express herself clearly.

  • It could mean that she does not think clearly or express herself clearly.
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It could mean that she does not think clearly or express herself clearly.
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GPYIt could mean that she does not think clearly or express herself clearly.
Thank you. I got the context now. The man cannot believe his eyes when he sees that this woman is woolly because he says she's ideologically pure. So, is that meaning okay for this context?
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It could mean that she is, contrary to what he thought, vague or ambiguous in her beliefs.
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Usually it refers to someone's speaking, not their appearance: See entry #6

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wooly?r=66
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AnonymousShe's the wooliest woman I've ever seen.
woolliest is another spelling. According to Merriam-Webster (and this is the first meaning I thought of, actually), it can mean "marked by boisterous roughness or lack of order or restraint <where the West is still woolly — Paul Schubert> —used especially in the phrase wild and woolly".

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CalifJim AnonymousShe's the wooliest woman I've ever seen.woolliest is another spelling. According to Merriam-Webster (and this is the first meaning I thought of, actually), it can mean "marked by boisterous roughness or lack of order or restraint —used especially in the phrase wild and woolly".Without further context I'd paraphrase your sentence as "She's the [wildest /
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Anonymousshe's ideologically pure.
That phrase doesn't help me. None of the definitions of "woolly" which have been offered in this thread seem to me to be related in any revealing way to the phrase "ideologically pure" taken as a contrast to "woolly".
AnonymousSo, is that meaning okay for this context?
So I still don't kno
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AnonymousThe man cannot believe his eyes when he sees that this woman is woolly because he says she's ideologically pure. So, is that meaning okay for this context?
No, that does not seem to fit, unless she's an esoteric professor and talks in such arcane language that nobody can understand her.
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The sentence, "She's the wooliest woman I've ever seen." - without clarifying context - could mean she's hirsute, or has extremely frizzy hair.
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I don't really agree with the previous posters that the "woolly" cannot contrast with "ideologically pure". If someone is "ideologically pure" then they can be expected to have very clear and certain beliefs. If they are "woolly" then it suggests that their beliefs are uncertain.

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