I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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hat
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A choir of families, wrapped in woolly hats , overcoats and scarves, were singing carols by a crib.
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Reduce global warming by wearing a woolly hat .
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Leonard Nimoy always wears his lucky woolly hat on set. 20.
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It's a woman I think - a young black woman with a woolly hat on.
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I wish I had my woolly hat on, not my straw one.
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He doesn't quite go around in wellies and a woolly hat .
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I take off my woolly hat and try it on.
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If you can imagine a benevolent and myopic stork in goggles and woolly hat , then you've just about got the picture.
mammoth
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It came to rest with corpses of slow woolly mammoths frozen deep inside, it lay on the bones of sabre-toothed tigers.
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Have you ever thought of your boss as a woolly mammoth ?
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But the woolly mammoth slept on, refusing to stir a limb on her behalf.
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Together with woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers, our ancestors roamed what are now submarine continental shelves.
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Or if you're not in a position to make a decision, why not suggest it to the woolly mammoth ?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He had gray, woolly hair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Woolly alder aphids are so named because they produce clumps of woolly wax from their bodies.
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A choir of families, wrapped in woolly hats, overcoats and scarves, were singing carols by a crib.
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In contrast, the Mac team was off in the ozone, designing a computer that fit their own woolly sensibilities.
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It's a woman I think - a young black woman with a woolly hat on.
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Reduce global warming by wearing a woolly hat.
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The same road then continues down to the woolly bottomlands, thick with willow, along the San Pedro River.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Either that or she'd got two woollies on.
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He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed, rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt.
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I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests.
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I was very glad of my thermal vest, three layers of woollies, and waterproof and windproof outer garments.
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Quiet clothes are a must: no rustly nylons, and lots of woollies.
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She had a variety of cardigans and other woollies.
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She was often a kind of walking heap of assorted woollies.
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Whatever you're up to during the snowy season, a wonderful warm woolly makes the perfect winter wear.