Woolly vs Fleecy - What's the difference?
woolly | fleecy |
Made of wool.
Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
(figuratively) Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.
(figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
(obsolete) Clothed in wool.
* Shakespeare
(informal) A sweater or similar garment made of wool
(Liverpool, pejorative) Someone not born in Liverpool (especially from the towns of Wigan, St Helen's, Widnes, Warrington and Runcorn).
Resembling or covered in fleece.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
*1920 , :
*:Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.
As adjectives the difference between woolly and fleecy
is that woolly is made of wool while fleecy is resembling or covered in fleece.As a noun woolly
is a sweater or similar garment made of wool.woolly
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Alternative forms
* woolyEtymology 1
From .Adjective
(er)- Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
- woolly hair
- That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
- woolly breeders
