bobbly BrE
pilly AmE
pilled AmE

Especially if you've got a red bobbly hat on.

We had one of those bobbly, clear plastic carpet protectors in the front hall.

Spurs made a bright start and were the first to threaten on a bobbly pitch.

"It was a difficult day, very cold, bobbly pitch and tough for a goalkeeper," he said.

The defeat came on a bobbly pitch that cut up and had ugly yellow lines running across it.

This was a superb effort from Rippingale on an extremely difficult bobbly pitch.

The flaking bark and the bobbly fruits are characteristic of this species.

The passing is shocking so far, I don't think the bobbly pitch is helping.

The bobbly pitch arguably did the winger no favours but it really was an astonishing miss.

It is a terrible looking pitch by the way, bobbly and sandy and patchy.

I remember that our sofa, a black bobbly thing with yellow dots on it, on pine legs, was really uncomfortable.

"We handled the local derby atmosphere well - we also had the wind and bobbly pitch to contend with," he added.

That said, the football wasn't pretty due to the bobbly state of the Church Road pitch and a stiff end-to-end breeze.

Once again, a trend for surface interest has inspired designers to use tactile, bobbly fish leathers that were all the rage in the 1930s.

The bobbly briskness of our stride.

Her black bobbly suit.

Lively and bobbly pitches delays our pattern of play and is hard for the way we want to play."

I have reached the point where an avocado is a bobbly fat-bomb and cheesecake is a kind of plastic explosive.

A bobbly, basic, and decidedly unironic fleece.

Bobbly football club hats & scarves.

Q The fine-gauge woollen jumpers I invested in last year are now looking out of shape and bobbly.

This is a stew cooked on a wood-burning stove by candlelight while wearing bobbly thermals in the middle of nowhere.

The bobbly clouds that make this image so startling are called mammatus clouds - a name derived from the Latin word for breast.

Boss Nicky Law said: "The pitch wasn't made for good football because it was bobbly and sandy.

Wycombe defenders struggled to acclimatise to the ball's exaggerated bounce on a hard, bobbly surface and failed to deal with the movement of Hyde.

Lightly run the hook side over a pilly sweater to smooth it out.

The sweater's pilly image rubbed off on my self-image.

The ability to send you and your chums into a pilly group hug on a dancefloor: checkmate!

She wore a pilly charcoal V-neck sweater pulled tightly over a white T-shirt.

On this day, he was wearing a soft, pilly sweater vest that looked like it could be an antique but was actually from the fall collection.

I agreed he didn't look quite as dignified with pilly collars and cuffs, so I brought his old shirts out of retirement and started ironing just them again.

'LITTLE GEM' is an exciting new addition to the popular 'Lilly Pilly' Range of plants, being a dwarf form of Syzygium francissii.

In restaurants now you can find meat and fish dishes seasoned with ground kurrajong flowers, wattle seed ice cream; lilly pilly berries soaked in honey and served with meat dishes and quandong (wild peach) stewed or in ice cream.

His pimpled face and thin voice and pilled shirt.

(A colleague remarked that it read on television like a pilled sweater.)

Dun brown, with a pilled body and protuberant choppers, the puppet enters quietly.

I walked into my Harvard interview in November 2001 wearing faded blue corduroys and a pilled wool sweater.

Do a test thats going to take 10 minutes to run every hour, to see if in the intervening hour your system has been Blue Pilled?

Vista will come pre-Blue Pilled.

But then the technical elements appeared: pilled or fuzzy finishes, or an arts-and-crafts crochet effect on the simplest of vest tops.

Best in show: Every coat was covetable in this collection, from the nubbly oversized mannish camel varieties with pilled surfaces to gilded overcoats.

She was still in her pajamas, a pilled pair of tartan blue bottoms thinning at the knees and my grey university tee from when me met in school.

Strangers are both intrigued and repelled by this slight, black-clad figure, a pilled skullcap low on her forehead, who is slumped against a wall adorned with graffiti.

Zoe managed to make it all the way to the back without spilling a drop--not a mean trick, considering how wobbly her stiletto heels were on the pilled carpet.

And similarly, software trying to detect if it's been Blue Pilled, if it's operating in the matrix and not in the real world, is being more and more clever.

Muh Ma's moanin again, so ah hud a quick splash; face, airmpits, baws n erse n ah pilled oan the clathes, still munchin at the toast.

Over the past few years, we have been treated to such dowdy delights as sack-shaped, pilled- angora skirts, sludge-coloured ribbed cardigans and marigold-style gloves with hairy knuckles of fur.

Residents are affluent enough to dispose of such items as last season's silk blouses and still-functional Nordic Tracks, but also peddle the usual pilled sweaters and tchotchkes of every kind.

The fact that this doesn't quite work is why so many women's closets resemble clothing compost - mulching heaps of different looks that don't come together in wan morning light but are too expensive to throw away and too pilled or rumpled to give to Goodwill in good conscience.