fluey

comparative more fluey · superlative most fluey

1. obsoleteDowny; fluffy.

   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

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   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

comparative fluier · superlative fluiest

1. Similar to influenza, or as if suffering from influenza.

   I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.

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   You've got a fluey bug thing and Mum's here to help

   2007, Philip Ridley, Leaves of Glass