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  • adjective Alternative spelling of fluty.

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Examples

  • Now there came a little "flutey" bit – very pretty!

    The Garden Party, and Other Stories 1922

  • Here, Asa assumes the folk-funk stylings of Linda Lewis, borrows the flutey mellotrons from Strawberry Fields Forever, and weaves them into a production so breezy you might reasonably whisper "new Sade".

    This week's new singles 2011

  • For much of the show, he uses a high, flutey voice that underscores the basic weakness of this Lear, a man who is also suffering from chest pains that might be a heart attack or mini-strokes or who knows what.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Derek Jacobi's Soft-spoken "Lear" Michael Giltz 2011

  • On the flip side you guys have lost flutey this week which is gonna affect your backs quite a bit.

    It’s A Car Tyre – I Can Manage – Go Away! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • For much of the show, he uses a high, flutey voice that underscores the basic weakness of this Lear, a man who is also suffering from chest pains that might be a heart attack or mini-strokes or who knows what.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Derek Jacobi's Soft-spoken "Lear" Michael Giltz 2011

  • Personal fave tracks on here would probably have to be the sublimely funky "Cool Steel" by The Firebirds, Wolf Baki's dreamlike "With You Alone" and the light and fluffy flutey "Street Waltz" from The Sante Palumbo Group.

    Archive 2010-01-01 X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010

  • Kingdom Kum laughed his flutey laugh and waggled a finger at me.

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

  • I've been unable to find a website for this place, but the ad had running water in the background think Feng Shui waterfalls and a soothing, flutey female voice listing all the spa amenities.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Susan Palwick 2006

  • And I remember coming over to his house and hearing him do it in falsetto and thinking what a nice, flutey falsetto he has.

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2001 2001

  • And through all this floated the flutey cries of the bagpipe, muffled by the woods but sounding the way the moon would if it could call down to the earth.

    The Queen of Everything Deb Caletti 1999

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