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fleecy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈfliːsi/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English fleece Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fleecy From fleece + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or covered in fleece.
   • {...} turning to take a last glance into the valley, whence a light mist mounted and formed a fleecy cloud on the skirts of the blue. 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights:
   • Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose. 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs:
   • Her path was on the briny deep; Yet no white sail propell'd her course, Nor measured oar with graceful sweep Urged her to stem the billow's force; Self-moved, with fleecy track she past, Disdaining in her pride To woo the breeze or shun the blast, Or wait the rolling tide;... 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the loss of the Steam Boat Ætna, page 96:
   • So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams. 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

fleeciness · fleecily

Translations (2)

fr molletonné (Resembling or covered in fleece.) · bg рунтав (Resembling or covered in fleece.)