wool
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Wulle, German Low German Wull, Dutch wol, German Wolle, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ull, Danish uld; also Welsh gwlân, Latin lāna, Lithuanian vi̇̀lna, Russian во́лос (vólos), Slovak vlna, Bulgarian влас (vlas), Albanian lesh (“wool, hair, fleece”). Doublet of lana.
The vowel development u → o → oo is purely graphical. Modern English generally avoids the string ⟨wu⟩ in favour of ⟨wo⟩, and the resulting woll was then altered to wool (as supposedly better representing the pronunciation).
Inflected forms:
form: wools
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
gloss: A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets.
gloss: Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation[…
gloss: A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: wool of bat and tongue of dog
gloss: Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
UK
uncountable
usually
gloss: A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
uncountable
usually
gloss: A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: The object of your affection is the treetop connection / Where basically you love to smoke your wools
He rocked Caesar's chains, he pushed Caesar's Range / Smokin' mad wools all day, with Caesar's change
Lopez said the shooter's name was Lou, known on the street as Wool Lou, because he sold "wools," which were cigarettes rolled up with crack cocaine.
Derived words: abb-wool
all cry and no wool
all wool and a yard wide
andalusian wool
angora wool
breech wool
bullswool
burry wool
cony wool
cotton-wool
cotton wool
cotton wool ball
cotton wool bud
darning wool
dead pulled wool
dewool
dyed in the wool
dyed-in-the-wool
dye in the wool
feather wool
fleece wool
gather wool
glass wool
go to the goat's house for wool
great cry and little wool
ice wool
kaowool
lambswool
longwool
meat wool
mestizo wool
milk wool
mineral wool
more cry than wool
much cry and little wool
nonwool
philosophers' wool
philosopher's wool
philosophical wool
pig's wool
polywool
pull the wool over somebody's eyes
pull the wool over someone's eyes
rag wool
rockwool
rock wool
salamander's wool
scoured wool
seed wool
Shetland wool
shorn wool
shortwool
skin wool
slut's wool
steel wool
steel-wool
thibet wool
underwool
virgin wool
warm as wool
waste of wool
wire wool
wolf in wool
wood-wool
wood wool
Wool Bay
woolbroker
woolclasser
wool classer
woolclassing
wool classing
wool clip
woolcomb
wool comber
woolcomber
woolcombing
wooldriver
wool-dyed
wooled
wool fat
wool-fat
woolfell
wool-gather
woolgathering
wool-gathering
woolgrass
wool grease
woolgrower
woolgrowing
woolhall
woolhat
woolhead
wool-headed
wool-hole
woolhouse
woolish
woollen
woolen
woolless
woollike
woolly
wooly
woolman
woolmonger
wool moth
wool oil
woolpack
woolpacker
wool-pated
wool picker
woolsack
woolsedge
woolshearer
woolshearing
woolshed
woolskin
woolsorter
wool sorter
woolsorting
wool stapler
woolstuff
woolulose
woolward
woolwasher
wool wax
woolwear
woolwinder
Wool Wool
woolwork
woolworker
woolworking
woolworks
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: صُوف
roman: ṣūf
lang: Armenian
word: բուրդ
roman: burd
lang: Asturian
word: llana
lang: Basque
word: ardile
lang: Belarusian
word: пра́жа
roman: práža
lang: Belarusian
word: во́ўна
roman: vówna
lang: Breton
word: gloanaj
lang: Breton
word: gloanenn
lang: Bulgarian
word: вълна́
roman: vǎlná
lang: Bulgarian
word: пре́жда
roman: préžda
lang: Burmese
word: သိုးမွေး
roman: sui:mwe:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 羊毛
roman: yángmáo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 毛線 /毛线
roman: máoxiàn
lang: Czech
word: vlna
lang: Czech
word: příze
lang: Dutch
word: wol
lang: Estonian
word: vill
lang: Finnish
word: villa
lang: French
word: laine
lang: Georgian
word: შალის ქსოვილი
roman: šalis ksovili
lang: Georgian
word: შალი
roman: šali
lang: German
word: Wolle
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰
roman: wulla
lang: Greek
word: μαλλί
roman: mallí
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἔριον
roman: érion
lang: Mycenaean Greek
word: 𐀔𐀪
roman: ma-ri
lang: Hausa
word: ulu
lang: Hindi
word: ऊन
roman: ūn
lang: Hungarian
word: gyapjú
lang: Italian
word: lana
lang: Japanese
word: 羊毛
roman: yōmō
lang: Khmer
word: រោមចៀម
roman: room ciəm
lang: Korean
word: 털실
roman: teolsil
lang: Korean
word: 양모
roman: yangmo
lang: Lao
word: ຂົນສັດ
roman: khon sat
lang: Latvian
word: dzija
lang: Lithuanian
word: vilnonas
lang: Macedonian
word: во́лница
roman: vólnica
lang: Macedonian
word: пре́ѓа
roman: préǵa
lang: Navajo
word: aghaaʼ
lang: Norman
word: laine
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ull
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ull
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: волна
roman: volna
lang: Polish
word: wełna
lang: Polish
word: przędza
lang: Portuguese
word: lã
lang: Romanian
word: lână
lang: Russian
word: шерсть
roman: šerstʹ
lang: Russian
word: пря́жа
roman: prjáža
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: clòimh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: olann
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: predja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prtilica
lang: Slovak
word: vlna
lang: Slovak
word: priadza
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: wałma
lang: Spanish
word: lana
lang: Swedish
word: ylle
lang: Telugu
word: ఉన్ని
roman: unni
lang: Thai
word: ผ้าขนสัตว์
roman: pâa-kǒn-sàt
lang: Thai
word: สักหลาด
roman: sàk-gà-làat
lang: Ukrainian
word: во́вна
roman: vóvna
lang: Ukrainian
word: пря́жа
roman: prjáža
lang: Urdu
word: اُون
roman: ūn
lang: Uyghur
word: يۇڭ
roman: yung
lang: Vietnamese
word: len