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MartinHorut Posted 18 years ago
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woolly hearing

Hello, in a book called the Mammoth Academy, a mammoth came down with a cold and had a "wooly hearing". What's that? Thank you.
  

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Well, I suppose there is a word joke involved ('Wooly Mammoth'), but wooly also means 'confused and vague'.

  • Well, I suppose there is a word joke involved ('Wooly Mammoth'), but wooly also means 'confused and vague'.
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Well, I suppose there is a word joke involved ('Wooly Mammoth'), but wooly also means 'confused and vague'.
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martinHorut Hello, in a book called the Mammoth Academy, a mammoth came down with a cold and had a "wooly hearing". What's that? Thank you.

I'm not familiar with the book but given the context my guess is that the mammoth is not hearing as well as usual due to his ears being stuffed up (as a result of the cold).

It's "came down with a cold an

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