fleece
See also: Fleece
Contents
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English flees, flese, flus, fleos, from Old English flēos, flīes, flȳs, from Proto-Germanic *fleusaz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fleece (countable and uncountable, plural fleeces)
- (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
- (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.
- The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
Translations[edit]
hair or wool of a sheep
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insulating skin with the wool attached
textile
insulating wooly jacket
- 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.
Verb[edit]
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.
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There is a difference between bookmaking, an entirely respectable profession, and fleecing people, which isn’t.[1]
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- (transitive) To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal).
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During spring shearing we have to fleece all the sheep in just a few days.
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- (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, wool.
Translations[edit]
to con or trick someone out of money
to shear the fleece
See also[edit]
- (con): nickel and dime
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fleece
- Alternative spelling of fliisi
Usage notes[edit]
- 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[edit]
Inflection of fleece (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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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 |
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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 |
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Roofing
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Hair
- en:Hides
- en:Sheep
- en:Textiles
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish nalle-type nominals