different between fleecy vs fleech

English

Etymology

fleece +? -y

Adjective

fleecy (comparative fleecier, superlative fleeciest)

1. 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.

English

Alternative forms

• fleich, fleitch, fleche (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch fletsen (“to flatter, fawn”). More at flatter.

Verb

fleech (third-person singular simple present fleeches, present participle fleeching, simple past and past participle fleeched)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To wheedle; coax; cajole; induce with fair words; flatter.
2. (intransitive, Scotland) To use cajoling or flattering words; speak insincerely.

Derived terms

• fleecher

Anagrams

• fleche, flèche