flye
See also: flyé
English
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /flaɪ/
- Rhymes: -aɪ
- Homophone: fly
Noun
flye (plural flyes)
- (weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.
- 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22.
- […] then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench, five sets of dumbbell flyes and two sets of twenty cable flyes—all designed to bulk, shape, striate and clarify the pectoralis muscles of the chest […]
- 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22.
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Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English *flȳġe, flēoge, *flēoġe (→ the alternative form fleie), from Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ.
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References
- “flīe (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.
Etymology 2
From Old English flēogan.
Verb
flye
- Alternative form of flien
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