Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling or containing flue, or loose fur or soft down; downy; fluffy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Downy; fluffy.

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  • adjective downy; fluffy

Etymologies

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flue +‎ -y

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Examples

  • That time I was all fluey, coddling Motrin like Elisabeth Hasselbeck does with her rifle and Kenny Chesney CD every night, Joy came off as the cool aunt.

    Hulu.com: 5 Easy Ways for Comedians to Survive The View Hulu.com 2011

  • It's not helped that the flight seems to have reawakened my cold, so I'm fluey and all achey.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2008

  • I should add that about 2pm I started to feel kinda yukky, achy, fluey.

    Archive 2009-01-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2009

  • I had a little fluey woowey but am feeling a little better.

    "We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races." Ann Althouse 2009

  • All fluey and aching and full of cold and sore throat and lack of energy and just generally feeling dreadful.

    The One With Flu, Rain And Political History kisobel 2007

  • I should add that about 2pm I started to feel kinda yukky, achy, fluey.

    the saga continues WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2009

  • VELEZ-MITCHELL: You know, Ant, this reminds me some kind of crazy spinal tap movie where the Hollywood mentality invades a small town and everything goes to fluey.

    CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2009 2009

  • My older son was home all last week with some fluey yuck.

    ccfinlay: My kid wakes up with a raging fever, the ccfinlay 2006

  • In other news, I woke up this morning feeling absolutely ghastly, achy, fluey, shivery, vaguely nauseous and with a mild RSI relapse, but I had an interview with David Essex lined up and there was no getting around it, so I dragged myself into town hoping that when the time came for the interview I'd be feeling better.

    August 15th, 2008 2008

  • Actually my excuse this time is that I was off work sick foul 'fluey bug for several days.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Imogen 2008

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  • Downy; fluffy.

    October 10, 2008