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fledgy en · ADJ

Etymology

From fledge + -y.

Meanings

1. Feathered or feathery.
   • And she who with compassionate sympathy / To so high flight my fledgy wings beguiled, / With answer thus anticipated me 1921, Dante, Alighieri, “Paradiso”, in Dante - The Divine Comedy - Collection - English - 18th century and 19th century, page 410:
   • Worlds move underfoot. Where lives Poetry? / 'Look’, hums Wisdom Smith, ‘in the inner domes / of ghost orchids – how the buzzing rhymers / read light with their tongues; or in this anthill – nameless draughtsmen crafting low rooms [...] / or fledgy starlings bathing in their crawl. / I see these worlds – lit worlds. I live by them.' 1989—, David Morley, Worlds:
   • Where a fledgy sea-bird choir / Soars for ever 1838, John Keats, Not Aladdin magian:

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