featy

English

Adjective

featy (comparative more featy, superlative most featy)

1. (regional, obsolete) pretty, neat
   • 1874, Somerset Archaeological Society, Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History: Vol. XVIII:

     Featy adj. pretty, neat.

2. (regional, obsolete) when a number of coarse, shorter white hairs are mixed in with the finer wool of a fleece, and by extension also any bad condition of a fleece
   • 1874, English Dialect Society, West Somerset Word Book:

     Featy adj. 1. Applied to wool ; when a number of coarse short white hairs are mixed with the finer wool of the fleece - called also kempy

3. (regional, obsolete) describing the condition of wool exposed to damp which appears unchanged but which has rotted
   • 1874, English Dialect Society, West Somerset Word Book:

     Featy adj. 2. This word expressed a particular kind of injury to which wool or woollen cloth is liable if left long in the damp - it seems to be rotten as to strength , while in appearance there is little change .