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cotton-wooly

cotton-wooly adjective: reminiscent of cotton wool.

Adjective

cotton-wooly (comparative more cotton-wooly, superlative most cotton-wooly)

  1. reminiscent of cotton wool
    Synonyms:
    cotton-woolish

Synonyms of cotton-wooly

  • cotton-woolish

Forms of cotton-wooly

comparativemore cotton-wooly
superlativemost cotton-wooly

Origin of cotton-wooly

From cotton wool + -y.

Questions about cotton-wooly

What does cotton-wooly mean?
Cotton-wooly means reminiscent of cotton wool.
What part of speech is cotton-wooly?
Cotton-wooly is an adjective.

Words near cotton-wooly in the dictionary

  1. Cotton-Mouton effects
  2. cotton-picking
  3. cotton-spinner
  4. cotton-spinners
  5. cotton-wool
  6. cotton-wooly
  7. cottonade
  8. cottonades
  9. cottonball
  10. cottonballs
  11. cottonbush

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