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fluier

fluier is the comparative form of fluey.

Meaning of fluey

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

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.

Questions about fluier

What is fluier the comparative form of?
Fluier is the comparative form of fluey.

Words near fluier in the dictionary

  1. fluidram
  2. fluidrams
  3. fluids
  4. fluidynamic
  5. fluidynamics
  6. fluier
  7. fluiest
  8. fluigram
  9. fluigrams
  10. fluindione
  11. fluish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fluier (page history and authors); fluey (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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