fley
Americanverb
verb
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to be afraid or cause to be afraid
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(tr) to frighten away; scare
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fley
1175–1225; Middle English flaien, fleien, Old English -flīgan (in ā-flȳgan ); cognate with Old Norse fleygia to cause to fly. Cf. fly 2
Example Sentences
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It will hae been some callant trying to fley us, that's a'.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
“It will hae been some callant trying to fley us, that’s a’.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
Waefu' Want and Hunger fley me, Glowrin' by the hallan en'; Sair I fecht them at the door, But aye I'm eerie they come ben.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
Sigrun asks Helge: Hverir lata fljota fley vid backa, hvar hermegir heima eigud?
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
Have you not reason to waye that whatsoever ether Virgil did write of his gnatt or Ovid of his fley was all covertly to declare abuse?...
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen
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