Adjective: fluey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | fluier |
| Superlative | fluiest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fluey |
| Superlative | most fluey |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage:]
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the latch-key[…]got itself stuffed up with a fluey substance, and the harder I poked it into the keyhole, the harder that obstruction became [1869, James Payn, A Perfect Treasure:]
Adjectives inflected like fluey
old-timey,
nippley,
drudgey,
tomatoey,
cringey,
dudey,
dykey,
fluey,
gamey,
wifey,
ropey,
rapey,
echoey,
pricey,
tonguey,
spikey,
Etymology
From flue + -y.