flyawayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

fly +‎ away

形容詞

flyaway (not comparable)

1. Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
2. Flighty; frivolous
3. (of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
   • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance (paperback), Fourth estate, page 231:

     [...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...].

派生語

• flyaway cost
• flyaway grass
• flyaway glasses
• flyaway spectacles

名詞

flyaway (複数形 flyaways)

1. A stray hair that is difficult to style.
   • 2007 January 18, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Taming Frizz and Setting Curls Free”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways.

2. Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
   • 1838 July 24​, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Literary Ethics. An Oration Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838”, in J[ames] E[lliot] Cabot, editor, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Emerson’s Complete Works; I), Riverside edition, London: The Waverley Book Company, published 1883, →OCLC, page 166:

     But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.

3. (gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
4. (television) A portable satellite television antenna.
   • 1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media (page 43)

     Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.

動詞

fly away (三人称単数 現在形 flies away, 現在分詞 flying away, 過去形 flew away, 過去分詞 flown away)

1. Used other than as an idiom: see fly,‎ away.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To escape, to flee.

同意語

• get away