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fluey

fluey adjective: downy; fluffy.

Adjective (1)

fluey (comparative more fluey, superlative most fluey)

  1. (obsolete) Downy; fluffy.
    • A black portmanteau, a black bag, a desk, a dressing-case, a brown-paper parcel, a hat-box, and an umbrella strapped to a walking-stick. It was all very dusty and fluey. I had our porter up to get under the bed and fetch it out; and though he habitually wallows in dust,--swims in it from morning to...1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage
    • the latch-key[…]got itself stuffed up with a fluey substance, and the harder I poked it into the keyhole, the harder that obstruction became1869, James Payn, A Perfect Treasure

Adjective (2)

fluey (comparative fluier, superlative fluiest)

  1. Similar to influenza, or as if suffering from influenza.
    • I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.
    • You've got a fluey bug thing and Mum's here to help2007, Philip Ridley, Leaves of Glass

Forms of fluey

comparativemore fluey
superlativemost fluey
comparativefluier
superlativefluiest

Origin of fluey

From flue + -y.

From flu + -ey.

Questions about fluey

What does fluey mean?
Fluey means downy; fluffy.
What part of speech is fluey?
Fluey is an adjective.

Words near fluey in the dictionary

  1. flueric
  2. fluerically
  3. fluerics
  4. flues
  5. fluework
  6. fluey
  7. flufenacet
  8. flufenamic acid
  9. flufenoxuron
  10. fluff
  11. fluff about

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