fledge
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 13
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- 6
Definition of fledge
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
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verb
- (transitive)To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight.
- (intransitive)To grow, cover or be covered with feathers.
- (transitive)To decorate with feathers.
- (intransitive)To complete the last moult and become a winged adult insect.
adj
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(archaic, not-comparable)Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
“his shoulders, fledge with wings”
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Etymology
From Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge, from Old English *flyċġe (“able to fly, fledged”) (attested in *unflyċġe, unfligge (“unfledged”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flugi, from Proto-Germanic *flugjaz (“able to fly, fledged”),…
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From Middle English flegge, fligge, flygge, from Old English *flyċġe (“able to fly, fledged”) (attested in *unflyċġe, unfligge (“unfledged”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flugi, from Proto-Germanic *flugjaz (“able to fly, fledged”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to run, flow, be swift, flee, fly”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Dutch vlug (“fledged, able to fly, nimble, swift”), Low German flügg (“fledged”), German flügge, German flücke (“fledged”), Icelandic fleygur (“able to fly, fledged”)
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