- a variation of fluty.
flutey
Americanadjective
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I knew that Ben Wishart's camp, flutey and painfully self-conscious Richard put me in mind of someone, but I'm happy I didn't realise it was Michael Jackson until afterward.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2012
Here, Asa assumes the folk-funk stylings of Linda Lewis, borrows the flutey mellotrons from Strawberry Fields Forever, and weaves them into a production so breezy you might reasonably whisper "new Sade".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2011
By the end of the '20s, talkies had taken over; Fairbanks sounded flutey and looked older in them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her Grace of Flintshire placed her perfumed and beringed hand upon Sir Percy Blakeney's shoulder; she stood behind his chair, chattering incessantly in a high flutey treble just like a canary.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Now there came a little "flutey" bit—very pretty!—a little chain of bright drops.
From The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
"He does," came an answer from right at my shoulder in Pan's flutiest voice, and I turned to find him standing just behind me on the very edge of the old tilting rock.
From The Golden Bird by Edward L. Chase
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