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fly-away en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of flyaway.
   alt of flyaway
   • ‘Aunt Maggie, why was I ever called Jessamy?’ [...] Her aunt changed the heavy suitcase to the other hand and said, ‘It was your mother’s name.’ Jessamy’s heart gave a little jump inside her, and Aunt Maggie went on: ‘When I said I thought it was too fly-away, and wouldn’t Ann or Mary be more sensible, she said that the eldest daughter was always called Jessamy in her family.’ 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 146:
   • It's a breath of old times, alas! all forgotten in these fly-away days. 1913, Jack London, “chapter III”, in The Valley of the Moon:
   • See also quotations at flyaway
   • Dave was as steady and solid as she was fickle and fly-away, and in some way Dave, who never doubted anybody, doubted her. 1907, Jack London, “Flush of Gold”, in Lost Face, published 1910:

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