flyaway vs straw

flyaway

noun
  • Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain. 

  • A stray hair that is difficult to style. 

  • A portable satellite television antenna. 

  • A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists. 

adj
  • Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free. 

  • Flighty; frivolous 

  • Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style. 

straw

noun
  • Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing. 

  • A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. 

  • A dried stalk of a cereal plant. 

  • Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions. 

  • A drinking straw. 

adj
  • Made of straw. 

  • Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw. 

  • Imaginary, but presented as real. 

verb
  • To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost. 

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