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fleeced

  [fleest]
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–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 + -ed 3
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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:
bef. 1000; ME flees, OE flēos, flȳs; c. MD vlies, MHG vlius, G Vlies

Related forms:
fleece⋅a⋅ble, adjective
fleeceless, adjective
fleecelike, adjective
fleecer, noun
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fleece   (flēs)   
n.  

    1. The coat of wool of a sheep or similar animal.

    2. The yield of wool shorn from a sheep at one time.

  2. A soft woolly covering or mass.

  3. Fabric with a soft deep pile.

tr.v.   fleeced, fleec·ing, fleec·es

  1. To defraud of money or property; swindle.

  2. To shear the fleece from.

  3. To cover with or as if with fleece.


[Middle English fles, from Old English flēos.]
fleec'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
fleece

  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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Word Origin & History

fleece  (n.)
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 1537 in the literal sense of "to strip a sheep of fleece" and 1577 in the fig. meaning "to cheat, swindle."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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