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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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Etymology

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

Meanwhile at Kirke’s hands the rest were gently bathed, anointed with sweet oil, and dressed afresh in tunics and new cloaks with fleecy linings.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

Why do those who yesterday predicted such frightful tempests now gaze only on the fleeciest clouds?

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand

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

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

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

A tunic worked by him is softer than the fleeciest wool, and the sheath of a dagger becomes in his hands as hard as steel....

From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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