flyaway
- noun
- /ˈflaɪəˌweɪ/
- After styling, I used a product to tame the flyaway strands that kept sticking out from my hair.
- flyaway hair
- flyaway strands
- tame flyaways
Bonus, you can use this for flyaways in a pinch.
- Bonus, you can use this for flyaways in a pinch.
- Keep brushing until there's no bumps, no lumps, no curls, no flyaways.
- What you can do is you can rub it on this product and then lay down any flyaways.
- I don't normally look this good, my hair is a nightmare of flyaways and everything so this is not my day-to-day life but I like it.
- Then I have this which I picked up when I was in Tokyo and it is like a gel stick to deal with flyaways and stuff.
- And what I like to do with this is actually just kind of get those flyaways to lay down without the like stiffness and crunchiness of a Hairspray.
- I would just say that's my hair and I would usually just kind of go in with like a flyaway spray or styling cream just to tidy it up.
Examples
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Just to smooth any flyaways and give my hair a gorgeous glossy finish.
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"I have flyaway hair."
Fiction book (1992) -
She had a light step and flyaway hair.
Fiction book (2002) -
It mostly lay flyaway around her shoulders.
Blog text (29) -
The three patches of white hair on his otherwise bald head were mussed and flyaway.
Fiction book (2002) -
It is a woman with a frenzied look and flyaway hair.
Fiction book (1996) -
I would just say that's my hair and I would usually just kind of go in with like a flyaway spray or styling cream just to tidy it up.
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I'm gonna tame my flyaways by using the Octavio Molina Hair Asafe, the Argon Oil.
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She was a skinny beanpole now, with long curly flyaway hair that was always in her eyes and a close-lipped smile she used to try to cover the mouthful of braces on her teeth.
Fiction book (1991) -
There was Charlie-One as he might have appeared as a human: a trifle pudgy and world-weary, with thinning flyaway hair, but a gleam in the eye and a quip on his tongue.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
A thin piece of hair
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flyaway comes from fly 'to move through the air' and away 'off from here'. A flyaway hair is a single little hair that 'flies away' from the rest and sticks out.