flueyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

fluey (comparative more fluey, superlative most fluey)

1. (obsolete) Downy; fluffy.
   • 1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage:

     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.

語源 2

From flu +‎ -ey.

形容詞

fluey (comparative fluier, superlative fluiest)

1. As if suffering from influenza.

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