flawy

English

Etymology

From flaw +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

flawy (comparative more flawy, superlative most flawy)

1. Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective.
   • 1740, Royal Society, Memoirs […] :

     a small diamond , that was cut or polished, but foul or flawy, as jewellers term it

2. Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.

Translations

Full of flaws or cracks

• Bulgarian: дефектен (bg) (defekten)

Subject to sudden flaws or gusts of wind.

• Bulgarian: поривист (bg) (porivist)

References

“flawy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.