"Woolfish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Woolf + -ish, playing on wolfish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more Woolfish",
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      "form": "most Woolfish",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2005, Damien Wilkins, Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine, 1988-2004, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 420:",
          "text": "For the training college annual magazine, at the end of the reports of the sports clubs, I wrote a Woolfish piece set in a city dancehall.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Simon Heffer, Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters, Random House, →ISBN, page 127:",
          "text": "A Woolfish “she missed the film. For she was late” takes us back to the edges of sanity. Today, the idiomatic usage of for seems a little arch.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David Nicholls, One Day, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Marsha – Miss Francomb? – is tall and imposing, with aquiline features that give her an intimidating Woolfish quality. In her early forties, her grey hair cropped and brushed forward Soviet-style, her voice husky and commanding, she stands and offers her hand.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Laura Gray-Rosendale, College Girl: A Memoir, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 67:",
          "text": "Mom's turned my childhood bedroom into a Woolfish “Writing Room.” It's packed with a new lacy daybed, an army of cushions, a rich wood desk, a computer.",
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        "Reminiscent of Virginia Woolf or her writing."
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          "sense": "In the style of Virginia Woolf's writing",
          "word": "Bloomsburyan"
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          "sense": "In the style of Virginia Woolf's writing",
          "word": "modernist"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-Woolfish-en-adj-0P1LQ1CE",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Woolfesque"
        },
        {
          "word": "Woolfian"
        }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwʊlfiʃ/"
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    {
      "homophone": "wolfish"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Woolfish"
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  "etymology_text": "From Woolf + -ish, playing on wolfish.",
  "forms": [
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      "sense": "In the style of Virginia Woolf's writing",
      "word": "Bloomsburyan"
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      "sense": "In the style of Virginia Woolf's writing",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2005, Damien Wilkins, Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine, 1988-2004, Victoria University Press, →ISBN, page 420:",
          "text": "For the training college annual magazine, at the end of the reports of the sports clubs, I wrote a Woolfish piece set in a city dancehall.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Simon Heffer, Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters, Random House, →ISBN, page 127:",
          "text": "A Woolfish “she missed the film. For she was late” takes us back to the edges of sanity. Today, the idiomatic usage of for seems a little arch.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, David Nicholls, One Day, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Marsha – Miss Francomb? – is tall and imposing, with aquiline features that give her an intimidating Woolfish quality. In her early forties, her grey hair cropped and brushed forward Soviet-style, her voice husky and commanding, she stands and offers her hand.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Laura Gray-Rosendale, College Girl: A Memoir, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 67:",
          "text": "Mom's turned my childhood bedroom into a Woolfish “Writing Room.” It's packed with a new lacy daybed, an army of cushions, a rich wood desk, a computer.",
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        }
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈwʊlfiʃ/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "wolfish"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Woolfesque"
    },
    {
      "word": "Woolfian"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Woolfish"
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