fluey

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   covered with, containing, or resembling loose fluff, lint, or down; obsolete

   The porters looked dusty and fluey after moving the old trunks.

2. 2
   adj

   resembling influenza or feeling as if affected by it; informal

   She felt fluey and tired but had no fever.

Two formations share this spelling. The obsolete textile sense is flue, an old word for loose fluff or down, + -y. The informal illness sense is formed from flu + -ey and means influenza-like; it is unrelated to a chimney flue.

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