Fluted vs Flutey - What's the difference?
fluted | flutey |
Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
(Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.
(flute)
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 26, author=Charles Isherwood, title=Lady Bracknell Is Back, With a Slightly Unladylike Air, work=New York Times
, passage=The flutey phrasing of Edith Evans in the Asquith film tends to chime in my head whenever I see the play, creating a distracting echo ?— and making most Lady B’s seem like hollow also-rans. }}
As adjectives the difference between fluted and flutey
is that fluted is having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight while flutey is .As a verb fluted
is (flute).fluted
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(head)flutey
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