woolly adj.2
pertaining to a country person, a peasant.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Harvard Stories 108: That is where we unknown woolly Westerners get the drop on the Boston men. | |
| Arizona Nights 112: ‘Who’s your woolly friend?’ the shiny Jew asks of the girls. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Outlaws (ms.) 13: Big sticky-out wire wool had, big wears and this big mad woolly accent. | |
| Stump 57: So yer’ve got woolly fuckin blood then? Explains a fuck of a lot, that. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
an unsophisticated, country person.
| Spike Island (1981) 20: A ‘woolly back’ [...] That means a county bobby, but the implication is he’s had a soft life. | |
| Awaydays 2: I’ve never known a game so eagerly anticipated as this local spat with the despised woollyback foes. | |
| Stump 56: Don’t like this fuckin place [...] Fuller fuckin woollybacks, sheepshaggers. | |
 | M. Herron Reconstruction: (2019) 194: [of provincial policemen] The woolly-suits at the nursery [siege] had more to worry about. | |
| Kimberly’s Capital Punishment (2023) 35: Hard-drinking woollybacks clomping from pub to pub [...] and growling at outsiders. |
a fool, i.e. a ‘soft-headed fellow’ (Grose 1785).
| Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Wooly-crown a Fool. | |
| New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
| , , , | | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
(Aus.) a term of abuse.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Digger Dialects 54: woolly dog (n.) — A term of abuse. | |
| (con. WWI) Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: wooly dog. A term of abuse. |
(US) an African-American.
| Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 22 Nov. n.p.: A crowd of woolly heads and niggers. |
see woofter n.