cotton wool
uncountable noun regional note: in AM, use cotton
Cotton wool is a soft mass of cotton, used especially for applying liquids or creams to your skin. [British]
All three work best applied with a cotton wool pad.
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Translations:
Chinese: 棉絮
Japanese: 脱脂綿
- uncomfortable conversation
- uncomfortable fact
- uncomfortable feeling
- uncomfortable moment
- uncomfortable pause
- uncomfortable position
- uncomfortable reading
- uncomfortable reminder
- uncomfortable seat
- uncomfortable sensation
- uncomfortable shoes
- uncomfortable silence
- uncomfortable situation
- uncomfortable truth
- uncomfortably
- uncomfortably aware
- uncommitted
- uncommitted voters
- uncommon
- uncommon experience
- uncommonly
- uncommon occurrence
- uncommon sight
- uncommunicative
- uncomplaining