fleece

See also: Fleece

English

Etymology

From Middle English flees, flese, flus, fleos, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fliːs/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)

1. (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
2. (uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
3. (countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
4. (countable) An insulating wooly jacket
5. (roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
6. Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
7. The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Derived terms

• fleeceless
• fleecewear
• fleece wool
• fleecy
• Golden Fleece

Translations

hair or wool of a sheep

• Afrikaans: vlies
• Armenian: բուրդ (hy) (burd), (archaic) գեղմ (hy) (gełm)
• Belarusian: руно́ n (runó), шэрсць f (šerscʹ), во́ўна f (vóŭna)
• Bulgarian: руно́ (bg) n (runó), вълна́ (bg) f (vǎlná)
• Catalan: velló m, vell (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羊毛 (zh) (yángmáo)

• Czech: rouno (cs) n, vlna (cs) f
• Dutch: vlies (nl) n
• Esperanto: ŝaflano, ŝafharo
• Finnish: karva (fi), villa (fi)
• French: toison (fr) f
• Galician: capela (gl) f, vélaro m
• Georgian: მატყლი (maṭq̇li)
• German: Vlies (de) n
• Greek: προβιά (el) f (proviá), μηλωτή (el) f (milotí)

  Ancient: πόκος m (pókos), κῶας (kôas), νάκη f (nákē)

• Hebrew: גִּזָּה‎ f (gizzá)
• Hungarian: gyapjú (hu)
• Italian: vello (it) m
• Japanese: 羊毛 (ja) (yōmō)

• Korean: 양모 (ko) (yangmo)
• Latin: vellus n
• Latvian: vilna f
• Laz: მონტკორი (monṭḳori)
• Macedonian: руно n (runo), волна f (volna)
• Mingrelian: მონტყორი (monṭq̇ori)
• Polish: runo (pl) n, wełna (pl) f
• Portuguese: tosão
• Quechua: rutuy, millma
• Romanian: lână (ro)
• Russian: руно́ (ru) n (runó), шерсть (ru) f (šerstʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: rùsg m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: руно n, вуна f

  Roman: runo (sh) n, vuna (sh) f

• Slovak: rúno n, vlna f
• Slovene: runo (sl) n, volna (sl) f
• Spanish: vellón (es) m, vellocino m, lana (es) f, toisón m (heraldry)
• Svan: მა̈ტყ (mäṭq̇)
• Tagalog: balahibo ng tupa
• Tamil: ^{(please verify)} ஆட்டின் ரோமம் (āṭṭiṉ rōmam)
• Ukrainian: руно́ n (runó), шерсть f (šerstʹ), во́вна f (vóvna)
• Welsh: cnu f, cnuoedd f pl

insulating skin with the wool attached

• Catalan: velló m, vell (ca) m
• Czech: rouno (cs) n
• Dutch: vel (nl) n
• Esperanto: (kruda) felo (eo), (preparita) pelto (eo)
• Finnish: talja (fi)
• French: toison (fr) f
• German: Fell (de) n
• Greek: προβιά (el) f (proviá)

  Ancient: πόκος m (pókos), κῶας (kôas), νάκη f (nákē)

• Hungarian: gyapjas bőr
• Italian: vello (it) m, pelliccia (it) f, tosone m
• Latin: vellus n
• Portuguese: pelego (pt)
• Russian: овчи́на (ru) f (ovčína)
• Scottish Gaelic: rùsg m
• Slovak: rúno n
• Spanish: piel (es) f, vellón (es) m, zalea (es) f

textile

• Catalan: pelfa f
• Esperanto: fliso
• Finnish: fleecekangas, fleece (fi), fliisi
• French: molleton (fr) m
• Galician: felpa f
• German: Fleece (de) n
• Italian: pile (it) m, felpa (it) f

• Japanese: フリース (ja) (furīsu)
• Russian: флис (ru) (flis)
• Spanish: felpa (es) f, pana (es) f, terciopelo (es)
• Swedish: fleece (sv)
• Ukrainian: фліс m (flis)

insulating wooly jacket

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抓绒衣

• Czech: flís m
• Finnish: fleecetakki, fleece (fi), fliisi
• French: polaire (fr) f

• German: Fleecejacke (de) f
• Icelandic: flíspeysa (is) f
• Italian: pile (it) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} runo (sl) n

Verb

fleece (third-person singular simple present fleeces, present participle fleecing, simple past and past participle fleeced)

1. (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^[1], archived from the original on 21 January 2020:

     There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t.

2. (transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).

   During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.

3. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.

Translations

to con or trick someone out of money

• Bulgarian: оскубвам (bg) (oskubvam)
• Dutch: oplichten (nl)
• Finnish: nylkeä (fi)
• French: dévaliser (fr), dépouiller (fr)
• Galician: esfolar (gl)
• German: abziehen (de), ausnehmen (de), betrügen (de), beschwindeln (de), übers Ohr hauen (de)

• Hungarian: megvág (hu), megkopaszt (hu)
• Italian: spiumare, pelare (it)
• Latin: dēfloccō
• Romanian: stoarce (ro)
• Russian: обдира́ть (ru) impf (obdirátʹ), ободра́ть как ли́пку pf (obodrátʹ kak lípku)
• Spanish: esquilmar (es), desplumar (es)

to shear the fleece

• Bulgarian: стрижа (bg) (striža)
• Finnish: keritä (fi)
• French: tondre (fr)
• German: scheren (de)

• Persian: پشم چیدن‎ (fa) (pašm čidan), فریز کردن‎ (fariz kardan)
• Russian: стричь ове́ц (stričʹ ovéc)
• Spanish: esquilar (es)

See also

• (con): nickel and dime

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fleece.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfliːsi/, [ˈfliːs̠i]
• IPA^(key): /ˈfliːs/, [ˈfliːs̠] (often in compound terms)

Noun

fleece

1. Alternative spelling of fliisi

Usage notes

• As is the case with many loanwords, the inflection of this term is problematic. Kotus recommends "nalle" - category in writing, as shown above, but in speech the declension usually follows "risti" -category, see the declension table for fliisi.

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 fleeceinrare
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
instructive		—	fleecein
abessive		fleecettä	fleeceittä
comitative		—	fleeceineen

Possessive forms of fleece (type nalle)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	fleeceni	fleecemme
2nd person	fleecesi	fleecenne
3rd person	fleecensä

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fleece.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fliːs/

Noun

fleece c

1. polar fleece