woolish
English
Alternative forms
- woollish
Etymology
wool + -ish
Adjective
woolish (comparative more woolish, superlative most woolish)
- Resembling or characteristic of wool.
- 1998, Harris Mullen, God Bless General Early, High Water Press (1998), →ISBN, page 263:
- He grabbed a woolish outfit and didn't realize until putting on the jacket that it was his Confederate uniform.
- 2004, L. B. Richards, The Adventures of Charley Tooth, Vortex (2004), →ISBN, page 279:
- He also wore a woolish hat that he had down almost over his eyes.
- 2006, C. S. Lovelace, Memoirs of a Lost Island: Remembrances of a Lifetime of Nantucket Summers, →ISBN, page 106:
- (If they had been in color, you would see the flash of gold and white against the green moors -- and, who knows, maybe some woolish grey?)
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:woolish.
- 1998, Harris Mullen, God Bless General Early, High Water Press (1998), →ISBN, page 263:
Synonyms
- woollike
- wooly, woolly