aflyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

afly (not comparable)

1. Flying; moving freely through the air; blown by the wind.
   • 1895, Josephine Tyler, Ben’s Isabella, Buffalo, NY: Charles Wells Moulton, Canto 12, p. 147,^[1]

     I tell you, Mister, such a family / With a sick husband, keep my hands afly;

   • 1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 5, in The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, OCLC 279587, pages 64–65:

     Thus, the light switched on, there was Einhorn in his BVDs, wasted arms freckled, grizzled hair afly from his face that was inclined to flatness, the shrewd curved nose and clipped mustache.