Wool vs Fluffy - What's the difference?
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The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
* 2006 , Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece , page 692
A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
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Anything with a texture like that of wool.
* 1975 , Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet , page 223
A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
(obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
* Shakespeare
(British, NZ) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
Covered with fluff.
Light; soft; airy.
(colloquial) Warm and comforting.
(colloquial) Not clearly defined or explained; fuzzy.
* 2008 , R.Safley, Reagan's Game
Lightweight; superficial; lacking depth or seriousness.
* 2006 , Linda Nochlin, Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye (page 271)
Someone or something that is fluffy
As proper nouns the difference between wool and fluffy
is that wool is a village in dorset, england while fluffy is a popular given name for a pet, often for a cat.wool
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
- The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation
- wool of bat and tongue of dog
Coordinate terms
* (hair of sheep) goathair, horsehair, qiviutHyponyms
* (cloth or yarn) felt, tweed, worstedDerived terms
* andalusian wool * breech wool * burry wool * cotton wool * dead pulled wool * dyed in the wool * fleece wool * glass wool * ice wool * mineral wool * much cry and little wool * pull the wool over somebody's eyes * rag wool * scoured wool * seed wool * Shetland wool * shorn wool * steel wool * thibet wool * virgin wool * warm as wool * waste of wool * wire wool * wool grease * wool oil * woolgathering * woollen, woolly * woolly, woolySee also
* (wikipedia "wool")fluffy
English
Adjective
(er)- Fluffy bunny rabbits are really nice to stroke.
- I like my scrambled eggs to be light and fluffy in texture.
- Being in love with my boyfriend gives me a fluffy feeling inside.
- Someone sold you the fluffy idea that brains triumphs over strength when you were picked last for the sports team.
- And she is represented reading with great concentration, and not some fluffy novel but the rather politically oriented and literary Le Figaro , its title prominent if upside down in the foreground.