fluey
adjEtymology From flu + -ey.
1
Similar to influenza, or as if suffering from influenza.
- I felt fluey this morning: all bunged up, achey, dizzy and tired.
- You've got a fluey bug thing and Mum's here to help2007, Philip Ridley, Leaves of Glass:
fluey
adjEtymology From flue + -y.
1
Obsolete Downy; fluffy.
- A black portmanteau, a black bag, a desk, a dressing-case, a brown-paper parcel, a hat-box, and an umbrella strapped to a walking-stick. It was all very dusty and fluey. I had our porter up to get under the bed and fetch it out; and though he habitually wallows in dust,--swims in it from morning to night, and wears a close-fitting waistcoat with black calimanco sleeves for the purpose,--it made him sneeze again, and his throat was that hot with it that it was obliged to be cooled with a drink of Allsopp's draft.1862, Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage:
- the latch-key[…]got itself stuffed up with a fluey substance, and the harder I poked it into the keyhole, the harder that obstruction became1869, James Payn, A Perfect Treasure: