[f. FLUE sb.2 + -Y1.] Covered with flue.
1861. Dickens, Gt. Expect., xxii. I went upon ’Change, and I saw fluey men sitting there under the bills about shipping, whom I took to be great merchants, though I couldn’t understand why they should be out of spirits. Ibid. (1862), Somebody’s Luggage, 4/2. I had the Luggage out within a day or two…. It was all very dusty and fluey.
