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fluey en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From flue + -y.

Meanings

  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 night, and wears a close-fitting waistcoat with black calimanco sleeves for the purpose,--it made him sneeze again, and his throat was that hot with it that it was obliged to be cooled with a drink of Allsopp's draft. 1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage:
    • the latch-key[…]got itself stuffed up with a fluey substance, and the harder I poked it into the keyhole, the harder that obstruction became 1869, James Payn, A Perfect Treasure:

Forms

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most fluey Degree=Sup lexicographic
more fluey Degree=Cmp lexicographic

fluey en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From flu + -ey.

Meanings

  1. Similar to influenza, or as if suffering from influenza.
    • You've got a fluey bug thing and Mum's here to help 2007, Philip Ridley, Leaves of Glass:
    • I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.

Forms

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fluier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
fluiest Degree=Sup lexicographic