fluey

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English

Etymology 1

From flue +‎ -y.

Adjective

fluey (comparative more fluey, superlative most fluey)

  1. (obsolete) downy; fluffy
    • 1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage:
      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.

Etymology 2

From flu +‎ -ey.

Adjective

fluey (comparative more fluey, superlative most fluey)

  1. As if suffering from influenza.
    I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fluey”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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