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wooly +‎ -ly

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Adverb

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woolily (comparative more woolily, superlative most woolily)

  1. In a wooly manner; with a wooly appearance.
    • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Century, page 892:
      I think of certain genial, lonely, irregular squares, more or less planted with pollarded sycamores, just then woolily tufted with their leaf-buds