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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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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

Its song is deep and fluty in tone, and very measured in pace and rhythm.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2020

Marchella had a fluty whisper of a voice.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2011

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

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

"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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