floaty

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Balloons seems to be everywhere lately {they're the new mustache!}, so here's little ode to things that are round, floaty, and cheerful!

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  1. Able to float or swim on the surface; buoyant. The hindrance to stay well is the extreme length of a ship, especially if she be floaty, and want sharpness of way forwards. Raleigh, Essays. Some few buttes of beare being flotie they got, which though it had lien six moneths vnder water was very good. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 154.
  2. Rank and tall, as grass. [Provincial English]

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  • Balloons seems to be everywhere lately {they're the new mustache!}, so here's little ode to things that are round, floaty, and cheerful! —  Oh Joy!
  • Edwardian evening gowns derived from a material resembling puffy nylon sleeping bags will dominate one collection; the next may bring a meditation on the army jacket, reworked into trenches, parkas, and tailcoats or a floaty gray jersey dress of such complex draping that a woman would need an instruction manual just to get into it. —  Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures
  • I will never be floaty, happy, screechy person and I think I am OK with that. —  Hope dies last
  • Ceui is fast developing into one of my favourite anison singers - I'm a total sucker for these type of floaty, ethereal voices. —  Anime Nano!
  • Choose spikes, and you'll get spiky music, choose floaty ribbons and you'll get floaty music. —  Shiny Shiny
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