释义 |
flyness|ˈflaɪnɪs| [f. fly a. + -ness.] The quality or fact of being ‘fly’; wide-awakeness.
1888Inter-Ocean (Chicago) 8 Mar. (Farmer Amer.). Each conviction is a lesson to the youthful politician that flyness and smartness cannot be pleaded in mitigation of contempt of honor. 1925United Free Ch. Mission Rec. June 247 Free from any of that holy flyness, with which, justly or not, ecclesiastics are sometimes credited. |