Definitions
tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas
Word origin
From float (noun or verb) + -y (suffix meaning ‘inclined to’ forming adjectives). Compare Middle English floti, floty (“of a place: well supplied with water”).
Used in a sentence
“[S]ome fevv buttes of beare being flotie they got, vvhich though it had lien ſix moneths vnder vvater vvas very good, […]”
“The Oxonians, too, though, judging by avoirdupois, they were big enough for the floatiest outrigger, preferred the old friend in which they had won the 'Varsity in 1878 and 'suffered' last year.”
“There was no going back to being Mommy Belle, […] the woman who made the "floatiest" matzoh balls on the face of the earth.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Light and airy”6 letters
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