Resembling or relating to the flu (influenza); having symptoms similar to the flu, or informally, looking pale or unwell.
Formed by adding the suffix '-y' (having the quality of) to 'flu,' creating an informal adjective commonly used in British English to describe flu-like symptoms.
In British English, people say 'I feel fluey' to mean they might be catching the flu—it's a casual way of describing that achy, feverish feeling before the real illness hits!
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