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linsey-woolsey
/ˈlɪnziˈwʊlzi/
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What does linsey-woolsey mean?
noun
- A fabric made of both linen and wool.
adjective
- Mean; shoddy; of unsuitable composition.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (archaic, figuratively) Worthless material; nonsense; gibberish.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlɪnziˈwʊlzi/
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The women had on sun-bonnets; and some had linsey-woolsey frocks, some gingham ones, and a few of the young ones had on calico.
But what linsey-woolsey has thou to speak to us again?
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Thus clad for the time being, either in the fine silk of the pond weed or in the linsey-woolsey supplied by the roots of the watercress, the caddis worm begins to think of building a more solid sheath.
The raiment of Marco and his wife was of coarse tow-linen and linsey-woolsey respectively, and resembled township maps, it being made up pretty exclusively of patches which had been added, township by township, in the course of five or six years, until hardly a hand's-breadth of the original garments was surviving and present.