flyaway
See also: fly-away
English
Alternative forms
- fly-away
Etymology
fly + away
Adjective
flyaway (not comparable)
- Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
- Flighty; frivolous
- (of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance (paperback), Fourth estate, page 231:
- [...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...].
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Derived terms
- flyaway cost
- flyaway grass
- flyaway glasses
- flyaway spectacles
Noun
flyaway (plural flyaways)
- A stray hair that is difficult to style.
- 2007 January 18, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Taming Frizz and Setting Curls Free”, in New York Times:
- Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways.
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- Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
- 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics - an Oration delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838
- Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.
- 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics - an Oration delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838
- (gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
- (television) A portable satellite television antenna.
- 1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media (page 43)
- Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.
- 1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media (page 43)