fluty

American

[floo-tee] / ˈflu ti /

Or flutey

adjective

flutier, flutiest

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

Example Sentences

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Plenty of people have caught Gielgud’s distinctively fluty voice and patrician air, but Gatiss was the emotional anchor of a play that connected with audiences who may have had no idea who Gielgud even was.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024

“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

"Revenez, revenez, beaux jours de mon enfance," he began, in a small, tremulous, fluty voice.

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

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