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Woolly vs Barometz - What's the difference?

woolly | barometz |

As nouns the difference between woolly and barometz

is that woolly is (informal) a sweater or similar garment made of wool or woolly can be (liverpool|pejorative) someone not born in liverpool (especially from the towns of wigan, st helen's, widnes, warrington and runcorn) while barometz is the woolly fern,.

As an adjective woolly

is made of wool.

woolly

English

Alternative forms

* wooly

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(er)
  • Made of wool.
    • Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
  • Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
    • woolly hair
  • (figuratively) Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.
    • That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
  • (figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
  • (obsolete) Clothed in wool.
  • * Shakespeare
    • woolly breeders
    Derived terms
    * woolly hat * woolly-headed, wooly-headed * woolly-minded (British) and (US), wooly-minded (US)

    Noun

    (woollies)
  • (informal) A sweater or similar garment made of wool

    • Etymology 2

    From (woolyback).

    Noun

    (woollies)
  • (Liverpool, pejorative) Someone not born in Liverpool (especially from the towns of Wigan, St Helen's, Widnes, Warrington and Runcorn).

    • barometz

    English

    (wikipedia barometz) (Cibotium barometz)

    Noun

    (head)
  • The woolly fern, .
  • A Scythian Lamb; a joke creature, supposedly half animal and half plant, made by inverting a woolly fern.
  • The , a mythical plant believed to grow sheep as its fruit.