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This week's theme Fabric words used metaphorically This week's words tweedy flannel woolly cotton plushy Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Surprise me! Get a random word from A.Word.A.Day archives Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg woolly PRONUNCIATION: (WOOL-ee) MEANING: adjective: 1. Fuzzy; unclear; confused; vague; disorganized; rough. 2. Of or relating to wool. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English wull. USAGE: "Edward Scicluna: This woolly and opaque way of reporting and forecasting must stop." Charlot Zahra; Is Restarting the Excessive Deficit Procedure Justified? Business Today (Malta); May 13, 2009. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: "The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell. -Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857)

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