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fliest

fliest is the superlative form of fly.

fliest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of fly.

Meaning of fly

Adjective

fly (comparative flier or flyer, superlative fliest or flyest)

  1. (dated, slang) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
    • be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is "fly,"— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the...1854, Charles Dickens, “Household Words”, in Arcadia, volume 7, page 381
  2. (slang) Clandestine, surreptitious
    • Some say God was an alien that tampered with our DNA, the 3 kings followed ufos & Mary had a fly shag 🤔🤫2023 December 1, @Davo_Mack, Twitter
  3. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool.
    • He's pretty fly.
  4. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.
    • [Rahiem] My name brings peace and tranquility / So all the fly ladies' hearts can run free1979, “We Rap More Mellow”, performed by The Younger Generation

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Forms of fliest

alternative formflyest

Origin of fliest

fly + -est

Questions about fliest

What is fliest the superlative form of?
Fliest is the superlative form of fly.

Words near fliest in the dictionary

  1. flies with leaden wings
  2. flies without a licence
  3. flies' graveyard
  4. flies' graveyards
  5. Fliessian
  6. fliest
  7. flieth
  8. fliey
  9. fliffis
  10. fliffises
  11. fliffus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fliest (page history and authors); fly (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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