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fly-away

fly-away is the alternative form of flyaway.

Meaning of flyaway

Adjective

flyaway (not comparable)

  1. Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
  2. Flighty; frivolous
  3. Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
    • [...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...].2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance (paperback), Fourth estate, page 231

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Forms of fly-away

comparativemore fly-away
superlativemost fly-away

Questions about fly-away

What is fly-away the alternative form of?
Fly-away is the alternative form of flyaway.

Words near fly-away in the dictionary

  1. fly window
  2. fly windows
  3. fly with leaden wings
  4. fly without a licence
  5. fly-ass
  6. fly-away
  7. fly-back
  8. fly-backs
  9. fly-bitten
  10. fly-blown
  11. fly-boat

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