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fluty

American  
[floo-tee] / ˈflu ti /
Or flutey

adjective

flutier, flutiest
  1. having the tone and rather high pitch variation of a flute.

    a person of fastidious manner and fluty voice.


Etymology

Origin of fluty

First recorded in 1815–25; flute + -y 1

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“This silvery, fluty, bell-like sonority that seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at once.”

From Washington Post Jun. 2, 2020

“So you get that fluty kind of sound — but that’s just her nature.”

From New York Times Jan. 20, 2016

He was a quiet man, tall and slightly stooping, with the fluty and precisely modulated voice of an Anglican clergyman.

From The Guardian Dec. 5, 2012

Marchella had a fluty whisper of a voice.

From New York Times May 9, 2011

"No; I'll build a nest over there in the big woods, and you can go back and forth between my—my brood and Mr. G. Bird's," promised Adam with Pan's fluty laugh.

From The Golden Bird by Chase, Edward L.

"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 Chase, Edward L.

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