Flocky Definition & Meaning

American

Etymology

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flocky American [flok-ee] / ˈflɒk i /

adjective

flockier, flockiest

1. like or characterized by flocks flock or tufts; flocculent.

Etymology

Origin of flocky

First recorded in 1590–1600; flock 2 + -y 1

Example Sentences

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Jim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.

From BBC

This flocky condition is caused by one or more saprophytic and parasitic fungi of lowly origin, whose various parts are reduced to mere threads, simple or branched, and divided into tubular cells at intervals, or else they are long, continuous microscopic tubes without any partitions, except at those occasional points where a branch, destined to produce spores, is given off.

From Project Gutenberg

Fortunately the disease is not very serious if proper precautions are observed; for, in our own cellars, where mushrooms have been grown year after year for the past eleven years, we get but few flocky mushrooms in any bed's bearing.

From Project Gutenberg

It is caused by other fungi which infest the gills and frills of the mushrooms, and render them a hard, flocky mass; sometimes the affected mushrooms preserve their white skin, color, and normal form, at other times the cap becomes more or less distorted.

From Project Gutenberg

In a bed say three feet wide by thirty feet long and of two months' bearing one may get as few as five or as many as fifty flocky mushrooms; one or two may occur to-day, and we may not find another for a week or two, when we may get a whole clump of them, and so on.

From Project Gutenberg

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