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Citations:woollish

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English citations of woollish

Adjective: "alternative spelling of woolish"

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  • 1957 — South African Department of Agriculture, Handbook for Farmers in South Africa: Agronomy and Horticulture, page 709:
    Soft rotting of small fruit, later covered with white, woollish growth Crown Gall, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, (S & T.)
  • 1980The Sheep Market: Problems and Prospects, page 47:
    Because of heavy advertisement by New Zealand, lamb is now placed as a "fashionable" dish for the young generation, while others still think of sheepmeat as having a "woollish" taste.
  • 1988The Alpine Journal, Volume 93, page 93:
    here — grey, woollish hair
    stuck to the rocks...
  • 1998 — Sandra Gullard, Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe, Harper Perennial (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    And then the sharp pain of being turned — I'm told I cried out horribly — and then the sickening comfort of something warm and moist on my skin, the woollish smell of blood (for a quick-witted servant had slaughtered a lamb and wrapped me in its still-warm hide).