flye

See also: Flye and flyé

English

A woman performing dumbbell flyes.

Alternative forms

• fly

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /flaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophone: fly

Noun

flye (plural flyes)

1. (weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.
   • 1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22:

     […] then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench, five sets of dumbbell flyes and two sets of twenty cable flyes—all designed to bulk, shape, striate and clarify the pectoralis muscles of the chest […]

Anagrams

• fley, fyle, lyfe

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English flēoge, flīeġe, from Proto-West Germanic *fleugā, from Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ.

Alternative forms

• fflye, fleȝe, flei, fleie, fley, fleye, flie, fliȝe, vliȝe, vlye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfliː(ə)/, /ˈflɛi̯(ə)/

Noun

flye (plural flyes or fliȝen)

1. Any insect capable of airborne motion.
2. A fly (insect in the order Diptera)

Related terms

• boterflye

Descendants

• English: fly
• Scots: flee, fle, flei

References

• “flīe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.

Etymology 2

Verb

flye

1. Alternative form of flien