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- noun weightlifting An
exercise performed by moving extendedarms through anarc while theelbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise thechest muscles.
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Examples
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October 22, 2009 at 3:13 am flye mi 2 da moonz adn lets mi sailz amok… erm… among da starrrz… er isset… rubs mai belleh good adn letts me purrs among yer scarrrz?
Turn offs da fan! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Anudder battur gitz up, n itza lawng flye bawl 2 Bekuz!
Hard work pays off - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Larnin tu flye, but ai aint got wingz, larnin tu flye … dah dah dee dah dah …
i can waits - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Iz yu guna has to lern to flye sowf foar wintur so as foar teech him da wae?
you killed a man? I jus scratch sofa - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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All excellent good, Master, and my stomack excellent too; I have been at many costly Dinners that have not afforded me half this content: and now good Master, to your promised direction for making and ordering my Artificiall flye.
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Face angled downward, Cody gasped for breath as he finished the final rear-delt flye on Monday morning.
High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006
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The maure flye. the body of doske wull the wynges of the blackest mayle of the wylde drake.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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The tandy flye at saynt Wyllyams daye. the body of tandy & wull & the wynges contrary eyther ayenst other of the whitest mayle ofthe wylde drake.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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It is no vilany amonge them to flye: if any thinge maye eyther be saued or wonne by it.
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When thei will shoote, thei vnarme their righte arme, and then let thei flye with suche violence, that it pearceth all kinde of armour.
jeffreydavidscott commented on the word flye
I like the unnecessary "e." Perhaps it is just a fancy spelling, or perhaps it is back-formed from "flyes," a spelling that distinguishes it from "flies."
January 17, 2011
Dragonflye commented on the word flye
Dragonflye is my login name/avatar for a few years now. I like the "e." I think it makes it feminine and unique.
January 17, 2011