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fleecy

American  
[flee-see] / ˈfli si /

adjective

  • fleecier,
    comparative
  • fleeciest
    superlative
  1. covered with, consisting of, or resembling a fleece or wool.

    soft, fleecy clouds.


fleecy British  
/ ˈfliːsɪ /

adjective

  1. of or resembling fleece; woolly

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of fleecy

First recorded in 1560–70; fleece + -y 1

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Sietsema also wrote that "it refused to lie flat, glistening with fat in its snappy natural casing, crammed into a freshly baked potato bun of perfect fleecy texture and density. It’s giant."

From Salon May 8, 2024

A boy in a Chiefs Super Bowl T-shirt pretended to fall asleep beneath a fleecy blanket.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2024

If you search #cloverlawns on TikTok, you’ll be flooded with photos and videos of fleecy, ethereal-looking lawns.

From National Geographic Jul. 20, 2023

She looks middle-aged, with a fleecy perm and wearing a gray hoodie underneath a black blazer.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2023

Here, Abby showed him his own fleecy dog bed, and it was heated!

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

In 2010, the intrepid J. Kenji López-Alt over at Serious Eats broke down the science behind velvety purées, versus fleecier mounds.

From Salon Oct. 10, 2021

That was my family last December, so wistful for something frostier and fleecier than the Middle East climate where we lived that we opted for a Nordic winter break in Sweden.

From Washington Post

The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries.

From Time Magazine Archive

It looked as if the whole world had been wrapped in a blanket of the whitest, fleeciest, shiningest wool.

From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore

And the snowflakes fell softly, silently, and covered them with a shining robe of fleeciest white.

From Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German by Millicent Schwab Bender

Perhaps the strangest thing about it was that Sheila did not look like a person who could have had even the smallest, fleeciest of clouds brushing her most distant horizon.

From Leerie by Ruth Sawyer

When, in spring, the trees flower, it is as though fleeciest masses of cloud faintly tinged by sunset had floated down from the highest sky to fold themselves about the branches.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

By and by the blue was to conquer, and the sportive winds were to let loose and drive before them the whitest and fleeciest of clouds, but always far up in high heaven.

From Windyridge by W. Riley

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