See fledge in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "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”).\nCognates\nFrom 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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}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "his shoulders, fledge with wings",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly."
],
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"(archaic) Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly."
],
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"archaic",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
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},
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{
"rhymes": "-ɛdʒ"
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],
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{
"word": "flidge"
},
{
"word": "flig"
},
{
"word": "flish"
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{
"word": "flitch"
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}
],
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}
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