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flocky, a.|ˈflɒkɪ|
[f. flock n.2 + -y1.]
1. a. Resembling flock; flock-like. b. Abounding with flocks or locks of woolly matter; floccose.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. lxxiv. §i. 107 The whole plant consisteth of a woollie or flockie matter. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 469 Flocky Heads and clotted Hair. 1833Herschel Astron. xii. 403 It [this nebula] is formed of little flocky masses, like wisps of cloud. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 96 Bicolorin..is usually in the state of a light flocky powder.
2. Comb., as flocky-white adj.
c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 191/2 The zinc becomes oxidised, producing a flocky-white powder. |