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fleeced

[fleest]
adjective
1.
having a fleece of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a thick-fleeced animal.
2.
covered with fleece or a fleecelike material.
3.
(of a fabric) having a softly napped surface.

Origin:
1520–30; fleece + -ed3

un·fleeced, adjective

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fleece

[flees] noun, verb, fleeced, fleec·ing.
noun
1.
the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
2.
the wool shorn from a sheep at one shearing.
3.
something resembling a fleece: a fleece of clouds in a blue sky.
4.
a fabric with a soft, silky pile, used for warmth, as for lining garments.
5.
the soft nap or pile of such a fabric.
verb (used with object)
6.
to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle: He fleeced the stranger of several dollars.
7.
to remove the fleece of (a sheep).
8.
to overspread, as with a fleece; fleck with fleecelike masses: a host of clouds fleecing the summer sky.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English flees, Old English flēos, flȳs; cognate with Middle Dutch vlies, Middle High German vlius, German Vlies

fleece·a·ble, adjective
fleece·less, adjective
fleece·like, adjective
fleec·er, noun
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fleece
O.E. fleos, from W.Gmc. *flusaz (cf. M.Du. vluus, M.H.G. vlius, Ger. Vlies), probably from PIE *plus- (cf. L. pluma "feather, down," Lith. plunksna "feather"). The verb is 1530s in the literal sense of "to strip a sheep of fleece" and 1570s in the figurative meaning "to cheat, swindle." Related: Fleeced;
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fleecing.
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fleece definition


  1. tv.
    to cheat someone; to steal everything from someone. (Underworld.) : Sam fleeced the kids for a lot of money.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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