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flaily en · ADJ

Etymology

From flail + -y.

Meanings

1. Acting like a flail; flailing.
   • “I hardly think someone as flaily as you can complain about anything.” “Flaily? That's not even a word,” I huffed, enjoying his arms around me more than I wanted to admit. “Flaily, as in, one who flails. […] ” 2016, Alice Clayton, The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered:
   • At once all furrows plow, the strugling streams O're all the main gape wide, boile foamie streams, With flaly-oares and slicing foredecks fierce, Which through the bustling billows proudly pierce. 1632, Virgil, translated by John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil, Book 5:

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