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Webster 1913 Edition


Fleecy

Flee′cy

,
Adj.
Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.
Fleecy flocks.”
Prior.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fleecy

FLEE'CY

, a.
1.
Covered with wool; woolly; as a fleecy flock.
2.
Resembling wool or a fleece; soft; complicated; as fleecy snow; fleecy locks; fleecy hosiery.

Definition 2024


fleecy

fleecy

English

Adjective

fleecy (comparative fleecier, superlative fleeciest)

  1. Resembling or covered in fleece.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter IV:
      So this was my future home, I thought! [] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
    • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs:
      Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.