Citations:woolish

Adjective: "resembling or characteristic of wool"

 * 1917 — Harry A. Franck, "The City of the Equator", The Century, Vol. 94. No. 2, June 1917:
 * She wears the same hat as the male, —hat-pins are unknown to her all down the Andes — a beltless waist of coarse cloth either always open or else thin and ragged; several strips of colored bayeta, a woolish shoddy, wrapped tightly around her drafthorse hips from waist to calves in guise of skirt, always slit, or open on one side, showing an inner petticoat, generally gray,
 * 1944 — V. G. Désamukha, Thus I Live, Popular Book Depot (1944), page 168:
 * The soap is miserly and does not give out much lather so we force it to disgorge it and feel its cool, woolish covering.
 * 1948 — Albert E. Wilkinson, The Flower Encyclopedia and Gardener's Guide, Halcyon House (1948), page 42:
 * The leaves are oblong and woolish-gray.
 * 1965 — Joel Augustus Rogers, The Five Negro Presidents, Helga M. Rogers (1965), page 18:
 * In this he is seen with that kind of woolish hair common among light Negroes in the West Indies.
 * 1968 — William Sansom, A Book of Christmas, McGraw-Hill (1968), page 109:
 * He is clad from neck to toe in what looks like a combination suit made of woolish fur.
 * 1974 — William Surface, Roundup at the Double Diamond: The American Cowboy Today, Houghton Mifflin (1974), page 31:
 * Finding it easy to illustrate his remark, he kicks a clump of woolish weeds, their pale yellow flowers looking as innocuous as sweet pea, about five inches high and barely larger than a man's hand.
 * 1981 — Monroe C. Beardsley, Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (1981), ISBN 091514509X, page 90:
 * And the difference is complex, for there are several ways in which two tones can differ from each other: one may be lighter or darker, brighter or duller, heavier or less heavy, warmer or cooler, more or less forward (advancing or receding), gayer or less gay, and livelier or flatter in timbre (a silkish red rather than a woolish red).
 * 1998 — Harris Mullen, God Bless General Early, High Water Press (1998), ISBN 0964662922, page 263:
 * He grabbed a woolish outfit and didn't realize until putting on the jacket that it was his Confederate uniform.
 * 2001 — Margaret Sweatman, When Alice Lay Down With Peter, Vintage Canada (2001), ISBN 9780307365989, unnumbered page:
 * On his elbows, he leaned over me and I breathed in his good sweat, the kind from working, not nerves, his smell, woolish, horse, winter, melted butter.
 * 2002 — Taylor Graham, "Bear-Hunger", in Taylor Graham: Greatest Hits 1973-2001, Pudding House Publications (2002), ISBN 1589981006, page 22:
 * I slept in the savor of pot roast,
 * the woolish warmth of wood-stove,
 * 2002 — Scott Waldie, Return to Travers Corners, The Lyons Press (2002), ISBN 1585746622, page 144:
 * Starting with his famous fishing hat — a colorful, woolish, Irish-looking thing festooned with fishing pins from around the world.
 * 2004 — L. B. Richards, The Adventures of Charley Tooth, Vortex (2004), ISBN 9780843951363, page 279:
 * He also wore a woolish hat that he had down almost over his eyes.
 * 2006 — C. S. Lovelace, Memoirs of a Lost Island: Remembrances of a Lifetime of Nantucket Summers, ISBN 9781430303633, page 106:
 * (If they had been in color, you would see the flash of gold and white against the green moors -- and, who knows, maybe some woolish grey?)
 * 2006 — L. Monique Tippins, "These lovely bones", in The Swallow Project: A Guide to Consuming Obsession, Lulu.com (2006), ISBN 9781847287533, page 53:
 * I say hello to her and her coiled, softly woolish hair, blackness against the solid, brilliance of my infatuation.
 * 2008 — Suzanne Strempek Shea, Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith, Beacon Press (2008), ISBN 9780807072240, page 279:
 * He looks dressed for winter in a woolish gray button-down shirt, and already is getting a bit pink in the face as with intensity he closes his eyes on the last few lines, stabs the air with his right pointer finger.
 * 2009 — Kevin Stein, "A Day's Work", in Sufficiency of the Actual: Poems, University of Illinois Press (2009), ISBN 9780252033094, page 36:
 * Good intentions proffer one vice of the easily fleeced,
 * a tenet of Colonialism jowly Prince Charlie must've cursed
 * touring Bob Marley's Trench Town 'hood,
 * paunchy white guy sweating woolish tweeds,
 * 2012 — Jeffe Kennedy, Rogue's Pawn, Carina Press (2012), ISBN 9781426894060, page 365:
 * I turned my cheek into his woolish cloak.