fleece

See also: Fleece

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK/US) 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.

Translations

hair or wool of a sheep

• Armenian: բուրդ (hy) (burd), (archaic) գեղմ (hy) (gełm)
• Belarusian: руно́ n (runó), шэрсць f (šerscʹ), во́ўна f (vóŭna)
• Bulgarian: руно (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
• Esperanto: ŝaflano, ŝafharo
• Finnish: karva (fi), villa (fi)
• French: toison (fr) f
• Galician: capela f
• German: Vlies (de) n
• Greek: προβιά (el) f (proviá), μηλωτή (el) f (milotí)

  Ancient: κῶας (kôas)

• Hungarian: gyapjú (hu)
• Italian: vello (it) m
• Japanese: 羊毛 (yōmō)
• Korean: 양모 (ko) (yangmo)
• Latin: vellus m

• Latvian: vilna f
• Macedonian: ру́но n (rúno), во́лна f (vólna)
• Polish: runo (pl) n, wełna (pl) f
• Portuguese: tosão
• Quechua: rutuy
• 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: lana (es) f, toisón m
• Tagalog: balahibo ng tupa
• 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: Template:quality felo (eo), Template:quality pelto (eo)
• Finnish: talja (fi)
• French: toison (fr) f
• German: Fell (de) n
• Greek: προβιά (el) f (proviá)

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

textile

• Catalan: pelfa f
• Finnish: fleecekangas, fleece (fi), fliisi
• French: polaire (fr)
• German: Fleece n
• Italian: felpa (it) f

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

insulating wooly jacket

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: flís m
• Finnish: fleecetakki, fleece (fi), fliisi

• French: fleece (fr)
• 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.

   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)
• German: abziehen (de), ausnehmen (de)

• Hungarian: megvág (hu), megkopaszt (hu)
• Italian: spiumare, pelare (it)
• Romanian: stoarce (ro)
• Russian: обдира́ть (ru) impf (obdirátʹ), ободра́ть (ru) pf (obodrátʹ) (как ли́пку)
• 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 (ru) (stričʹ) (ове́ц)
• Spanish: esquilar (es)

See also

• (con): nickel and dime

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fleece.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfliːsi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfliːs/ (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