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English
Adjective
featy (comparative more featy, superlative most featy)
- (regional, obsolete) pretty, neat
1874, Somerset Archaeological Society, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History: Vol. XVIII:Featy adj. pretty, neat.
- (regional, obsolete) when a number of coarse, shorter white hairs are mixed in with the finer wool of a fleece, and by extension also any bad condition of a fleece
1874, English Dialect Society, West Somerset Word Book:Featy adj. 1. Applied to wool ; when a number of coarse short white hairs are mixed with the finer wool of the fleece - called also kempy
- (regional, obsolete) describing the condition of wool exposed to damp which appears unchanged but which has rotted
1874, English Dialect Society, West Somerset Word Book:Featy adj. 2. This word expressed a particular kind of injury to which wool or woollen cloth is liable if left long in the damp - it seems to be rotten as to strength , while in appearance there is little change .