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WORDNET DICTIONARY
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fleecy

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Adjective

HYPHEN

fleec=y

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective fleecy has 1 sense

fleecy(s = adj.all) brushed, napped - (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing; "a dress of brushed cotton"; "a fleecy lining"; "napped fabrics"

Derived form noun fleece₃

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CIDE DICTIONARY

fleecy, a.

Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece. Prior. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

fleecy, adj. & n.
--adj. (fleecier, fleeciest)
1 of or like a fleece.
2 covered with a fleece.
--n. (also fleecie) (pl. -ies) Austral. & NZ a person whose job is to pick up fleeces in a shearing shed.

Derivative

fleecily adv. fleeciness n.

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THESAURUS

fleecy

bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pilose, pubescent, shagged, shaggy, unshorn, whiskered, woolly

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