fly-away

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English

Adjective

fly-away (comparative more fly-away, superlative most fly-away)

Alternative form of flyaway
- 1907, Jack London, “Flush of Gold”, in Lost Face, published 1910:
  Dave was as steady and solid as she was fickle and fly-away, and in some way Dave, who never doubted anybody, doubted her.
- 1913, Jack London, “chapter III”, in The Valley of the Moon:
  It's a breath of old times, alas! all forgotten in these fly-away days.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 146:
  ‘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.’
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