English Dictionary

linsey-woolsey

noun

A fabric made of both linen and wool. / (figuratively, archaic) Worthless material; nonsense; gibberish.

She wore a beautiful linsey-woolsey dress to the party.

意味（1）

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 weare linſey wolſey.

意味（2）

(figuratively, archaic) Worthless material; nonsense; gibberish.

what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak