fledgy

English

Etymology

From fledge +‎ -y.

Adjective

fledgy (comparative more fledgy, superlative most fledgy)

1. Feathered or feathery.
   • 1838, John Keats, Not Aladdin magian‎^[1]:

     Where a fledgy sea-bird choir / Soars for ever

   • 1921, Dante, Alighieri, “Paradiso”, in Dante - The Divine Comedy - Collection - English - 18th century and 19th century‎^[2], page 410:

     And she who with compassionate sympathy / To so high flight my fledgy wings beguiled, / With answer thus anticipated me

   • 1989—, David Morley, Worlds‎^[3]:

     Worlds move underfoot. Where lives Poetry? / 'Look’, hums Wisdom Smith, ‘in the inner domes / of ghost orchids – how the buzzing rhymers / read light with their tongues; or in this anthill – nameless draughtsmen crafting low rooms [...] / or fledgy starlings bathing in their crawl. / I see these worlds – lit worlds. I live by them.'