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wild and woolly

a. Uncultured and without laws.

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Wild and Woolly

Wild and Woolly is a 1917 American silent Western comedy film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell and Sam De Grasse. The film was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter and was directed by John Emerson.

Wild and Woolly (1932 film)

Wild and Woolly is a short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions, and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Wild and Woolly (1937 film)

Wild and Woolly is a 1937 American Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and written by Frank Fenton and Lynn Root. The film stars Jane Withers, Walter Brennan, Pauline Moore, Carl Switzer, Jackie Searl and Berton Churchill. The film was released on July 19, 1937, by 20th Century Fox.

Usage examples of "wild and woolly".

Maybe they know something about those wild and woolly Kiowa we brushed with as well.

However, I had recently paid the school a second visit and now remembered that the self-same Mandy Wilmott had been scratching away at her wild and woolly hair when I had sat in on her class to see if any improvements had been made.

I run my substation here in town the way I run the beef operation left to me by a dear old wild and woolly cattleman.

Well, the grandeur turned out to be Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show' - I concluded that I'd been dragged in because I'd been out yonder myself, and was considered an authority on all that was wild and woolly - and we sat in vile discomfort at Earl's Court among a great gang of Court toadies, while Cody pranced on a white horse, waving his hat and sporting a suit of patent buckskins that would have laid 'em helpless with laughter along the Yellowstone.

She bent over to pour him more coffee as she asked what else there could be to find out about a sort of informal but sensible enough way to cope with any sort of wild and woolly killers.

This Treacle Tom to whom reference has been made had been absent from his usual wild and woolly haunts in the land of counties capalleens for some time previous to that (he was, in fact, in the habit of frequenting common lodginghouses where he slept in a nude state, hailfellow with meth, in strange men's cots) but on racenight, blotto after divers tots of hell fire, red biddy, bull dog, blue ruin and creeping jenny, Eglandine's choicest herbage, supplied by the Duck and Doggies, the Galopping Primrose, Brigid Brewster's, the Cock, the Postboy's Horn, the Little Old Man's and All Swell That Aimswell, the Cup and the .

Sometimes, it reminds me of paleontology back in the wild and woolly days of Cope and Marsh, battling it out over dinosaur bones.

He had known John Barrymore Dix since their wild and woolly days with the legendary Trader.

He had refused to comb his hair, on grounds that even his scalp was sore, and he looked a wild and woolly sight, red spikes sticking up above a swollen purple face with one eye squeezed disreputably shut.

Hinted as how he'd took care of a few in his wild and woolly days out West, but claimed he'd never killed nobody less they meant him harm.

Only a pin-head fool would hope to find the wild and woolly Big Sur of bygone days in the Florida torpor.

Mistworld, once the only rebel planet in Lionstone's Empire, was still a wild and woolly and largely uncivilized place, mostly because its inhabitants preferred it that way.