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fleys

fleys is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fley.

Meaning of fley

Verb

fley (third-person singular simple present fleys, present participle fleying, simple past and past participle fleyed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To frighten.
    • The Jack O'Lanthron was among the reeds again last night, and some of my neighbours are sore fleyed.1860, James Phillips Kay, Scarsdale; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be frightened.

Questions about fleys

What is fleys the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fleys is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fley.

Words near fleys in the dictionary

  1. flexwings
  2. flexy
  3. fley
  4. fleyed
  5. fleying
  6. fleys
  7. fleyshik
  8. fleyshiks
  9. fleysome
  10. flezelastine
  11. FLG

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fleys (page history and authors); fley (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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