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Woolish vs Woodish - What's the difference?

woolish | woodish |

As adjectives the difference between woolish and woodish

is that woolish is resembling or characteristic of wool while woodish is (rare) being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody.

woolish

English

Alternative forms

*woollish

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of wool.
  • * 1998 , Harris Mullen, God Bless General Early , High Water Press (1998), ISBN 0964662922, 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 9780843951363, 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 9781430303633, 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?)
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    • Synonyms

    *woollike *wooly, woolly

    woodish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Being like wood, pertaining to wood; woody.
  • (obsolete) Characteristic of woods or woodland.
  • *1630 , John Smith, True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:
  • *:The countrey wondering at such an Hermite; His friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora Polaloga, Rider to Henry Earle of Lincolne, an excellent Horse-man, and a noble Italian Gentleman, to insinuate into his wooddish acquaintances [...].