linsey-woolsey noun 2adjective 1forms 1 noun2 •A fabric made of both linen and wool.I had as lieue haue no sunne, as haue it shine faintly, no fire, as a smothering fire of small coales, no cloathes, rather then vveare linsey vvolsey. — 1599 •(figurative, no longer used) Worthless material; nonsense; gibberish.[W]hat linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak […] — 1604 adjective1 •Mean; shoddy; of unsuitable composition. formslinsey-woolseys
