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Woolly-headed   /wˈʊli-hˈɛdəd/   Listen
Woolly-headed

adjective
1.
Confused and vague; used especially of thinking.  Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, wooly-minded.  "Your addled little brain" , "Woolly thinking" , "Woolly-headed ideas"






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"Woolly-headed" Quotes from Famous Books



... woolly-headed knight of the napkins meditatively, "looks to me like de po' man don't want nobody to find out he's po' an' de rich man don't want nobody to ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... States as obligatory upon them in their intercourse with European states and colonies. But we have a different law of nations regulating our intercourse with the Indian tribes on this continent; another, between us and the woolly-headed natives of Africa; another, with the Barbary powers; another, with the flowery land, or Celestial empire. This last is the nation with which Great Britain is now at war. Then, reasoning on the rights of property, established by labor, by occupancy, ...
— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy



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