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woollyback 

"Woollyback" is a term used in Liverpool, England to describe people who come from outside Liverpool, especially those from Lancashire, which is sometimes used pejoratively towards those perceived as outsiders by Scousers, natives of Liverpool.

The term is believed to have originally referred to the people who worked in wool factories in towns near Liverpool, such as St Helens, Wigan or Widnes. They would walk to Liverpool carrying the wool on their backs, therefore they became known as Woollybacks, and now the term refers to anyone from the county of Lancashire.
Anfield's full of Woollybacks these days.

Them Woollybacks have a weird accent, they tark lahk this.
woollyback by Scouse Lad April 30, 2006
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Woolyback 

Refers to someone living or originating from the following, surrounding places of Liverpool;
-Widnes
-St Helens
-Warrington
-Runcorn

These towns surround the outskirts of Liverpool, like Speke or Prescot for example. And it is found that many wools are 'plastic/plazzy scousers' and they put on fake scouse accents.
Wool; 'Haha annorr, was so funneh, orrrr ma godd'
Scouser; 'Ha, a-know larrr, funny as f*ck weren't it our kid'

- Woolybacks tend to drag out the vowel sound.

*Desperate Scousewives - JAIDEN is the biggest 'wool' so pay attention to his awful accent*
Woolyback by JimmyCorkhillisfurious November 29, 2011
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a wollyback is a person who is a sheep shagger!!!!!!
ahh flano u wollyback wat was u at last nite
wollyback by gally0708 February 21, 2009

woolyback 

A person born in the town St. Helens, in the North West of England. This word can be used as an insult as well as an identification.
"I'm a woolyback, me!"
"Shut it, ya fuckin' woolyback!"
woolyback by Hedj February 10, 2005

woolyback 

labour drafted into Liverpool Docks during the dockers strike, usualy came from smaller towns outside the city. They had to carry the woollen bales on their backs because they did not have the correct equipment for unloading ships.

It is generaly considered a form of insult by people from liverpool although most dont know what it means or where it comes from
"im a fucktard scouser, i dunno wat it means but your a fukin woolyback"
woolyback by RageATM May 8, 2009

Wollywacker 

Another way to describe your penis, dick, cock, manhood etc.
Wow, what a huge wollywacker.

woolyback 

A person who lives in the rural or semi-rural area directly adjacent to a metropolitan borough, alluding to the belief that such people must be a genetic throwback to want to live outside the bustling city and as such are likely to have a cro-magnon style hairy back.

Origin : probably Liverpool as that’s where I heard it first, with a local referring to anybody from Cheshire as a ‘woolyback’.
"Fuckin' 'ell la, your girls a woolyback"

(I say, old chap, your girlfriend appears to come from the countryside).
woolyback by Linbox June 29, 2004