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Fleecy vs Fleech - What's the difference?

fleecy | fleech |

As an adjective fleecy

is resembling or covered in fleece.

As a verb fleech is

to wheedle; coax; cajole; induce with fair words; flatter.

fleecy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling or covered in fleece.
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • *1920 , :
  • *:Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.

    • fleech

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

    Verb

  • (Scotland) To wheedle; coax; cajole; induce with fair words; flatter.
  • * 1884 , John MacKay Wilson, Tales of the Borders and of Scotland (page 64)
    • I fleeched him, and I coaxed him, and I kicked him, and I cuffed him; but I might as weal hae kicked my heel upon the floor, or fleeched the fireplace.
  • (Scotland) To use cajoling or flattering words; speak insincerely.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)