fleece
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Remove ads
See also: Fleece
Etymology
From Middle English flees, flese, flus, fleos, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.
Pronunciation
Noun
fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)
- (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
- 1730, Allan Ramsay, “[Act II, Scene IV]”, in The Gentle Shepherd: A Scots Paſtoral-Comedy, page 23:
- The Sun ſhall change, the Moon to change ſhall ceaſe; / The Gaits to clim-----the Sheep to yield the Fleece, / Ere ought by me be either ſaid or done, / Shall do thee Wrang, I ſwear by all aboon.
- 1837, William Youatt, “Preface”, in Sheep: Their Breeds, Management and Diseases. […] (Library of Useful Knowledge), London: Baldwin and Cradock:
- Wool became the substitute for money. […] In all the middle periods of British history, the fleece was the expression and the measure of national prosperity or calamity.
- (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
- (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
- (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
- (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
- Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
- 1879 January, Ellis Clare, “The Christmas Eaglet”, in Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volume 49, number 1, Boston: Thomes & Talbot:
- Alas! in the morning the eaglet was gone; and, full of sorrow, they stooped to pick up the shining fleece with which the floor was spread. At their touch, every feather became a golden coin.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Derived terms
- China fleece vine (Polygonum aubertii)
- feather fleece (Stenanthium robustum)
- fleeceflower (Fallopia spp., Persicaria spp., Polygonum spp.)
- fleeceless
- fleece vine (Polygonum aubertii)
- fleecewear
- fleece wool
- fleece worm (Phormia regina etc.)
- fleecy
- Golden Fleece
- green fleece (Codium fragile)
- smooth golden fleece (Urospermum dalechampii)
Translations
hair or wool of a sheep
|
insulating skin with the wool attached
|
textile
|
insulating woolly jacket
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Verb
fleece (third-person singular simple present fleeces, present participle fleecing, simple past and past participle fleeced)
- (transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.
- 2015 August 2, “All bets are off: why bookmakers aren’t playing fair”, in The Observer, archived from the original on 21 January 2020:
- There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t.
- (transitive) To cut off the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.
Translations
to con or trick someone out of money
|
See also
- (con): nickel and dime
References
Remove ads
Pronunciation
Noun
fleece
- (unadapted) Alternative form of fliisi (“fleece, fleece coat”)
Usage notes
Declension
| Inflection of fleece (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | fleece | fleecet | |
| genitive | fleecen | fleecejen | |
| partitive | fleeceä | fleecejä | |
| illative | fleeceen | fleeceihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | fleece | fleecet | |
| accusative | nom. | fleece | fleecet |
| gen. | fleecen | ||
| genitive | fleecen | fleecejen fleecein rare | |
| partitive | fleeceä | fleecejä | |
| inessive | fleecessä | fleeceissä | |
| elative | fleecestä | fleeceistä | |
| illative | fleeceen | fleeceihin | |
| adessive | fleecellä | fleeceillä | |
| ablative | fleeceltä | fleeceiltä | |
| allative | fleecelle | fleeceille | |
| essive | fleecenä | fleeceinä | |
| translative | fleeceksi | fleeceiksi | |
| abessive | fleecettä | fleeceittä | |
| instructive | — | fleecein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
| Possessive forms of fleece (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “fleece”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Remove ads
Noun
fleece
- Alternative form of flees
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fleece c
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | fleece | fleeces |
| definite | fleecen | fleecens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
References
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
Remove ads