/lin"zee wool"zee/ , n. , pl. linsey-woolseys .
1. a coarse fabric woven from linen warp, or sometimes cotton, and coarse wool filling.
2. a garment made from this.
3. Archaic. any mixture that is incongruous or of poor quality; jumble: That last speech was a linsey-woolsey of stale platitudes. Also called linsey .
[ 1425-75; late ME lynsy wolsye lit., linen cloth, wool cloth, equiv. to lyn (OE lin; see LINEN) + -sy, var. of say cloth ( saie; akin to ML sagia kind of weave, L sagum cloak) + wol WOOL + -sye, var. of SAY ]