different between wooly vs woody

English

From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool +? -y.

wooly (comparative woolier, superlative wooliest)

(American spelling) Alternative form of woolly
Put on a wooly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
wooly hair
That's the sort of wooly thinking that causes wars to start.

wooly (plural woolies)

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood +? -y.

woody (comparative woodier, superlative woodiest)

Covered in woods; wooded.
(obsolete) Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
  with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
Made of wood, or having wood-like properties.
(botany) Non-herbaceous.
(botany) Lignified.

woody (plural woodies)

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