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fleece
English
Etymology
From Middle English flees, flese, flus, fleos, from Old English fl?os, fl?es, fl?s, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /fli?s/
- Rhymes: -i?s
Noun
fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)
- (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
- (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
- (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
- (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
- (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
- Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Derived terms
- fleeceless
- fleecewear
- fleece wool
- fleecy
- Golden Fleece
Translations
Verb
fleece (third-person singular simple present fleeces, present participle fleecing, simple past and past participle fleeced)
- (transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.
- (transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.
Translations
See also
- (con): nickel and dime
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English fleece.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fli?si/, [?fli?s?i]
- IPA(key): /?fli?s/, [?fli?s?] (often in compound terms)
Noun
fleece
- Alternative spelling of fliisi
Usage notes
- As is the case with many loanwords, the inflection of this term is problematic. Kotus recommends "nalle" - category in writing, as shown above, but in speech the declension usually follows "risti" -category, see the declension table for fliisi.
Declension
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fleecy
English
Etymology
fleece +? -y
Adjective
fleecy (comparative fleecier, superlative fleeciest)
- Resembling or covered in fleece.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XX:
- {...} turning to take a last glance into the valley, whence a light mist mounted and formed a fleecy cloud on the skirts of the blue.
- 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.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XX:
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