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Flyaway

adjective
1.
Guided by whim and fancy.  Synonyms: flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained.
2.
(of hair or clothing) worn loose.  "A flyaway coat"





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"Flyaway" Quotes from Famous Books



... termed by the geographers of old, Aprositus, or the Inaccessible; while modern navigators have called its very existence in question, pronouncing it a mere optical illusion, like the Fata Morgana of the Straits of Messina; or classing it with those unsubstantial regions known to mariners as Cape Flyaway, and the Coast ...
— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving
... pity that little flyaway of a Horace didn't give you the letter in time," said Louise; "and then we might have had some days to get used ...
— Captain Horace • Sophie May
... But I overheard their talk. They spoke about a boat on the Hudson River, the Flyaway. They were ...
— The Rover Boys on the Ocean • Arthur M. Winfield


Words linked to "Flyaway" :   loose, frivolous


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