FLYAWAY

flyaway

(adjective) (of hair or clothing) worn loose; “her flyaway hair”; “a flyaway coat”

flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained

(adjective) guided by whim and fancy; “flighty young girls”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

flyaway (not comparable)

Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.

Flighty; frivolous

(of hair) Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.

Noun

flyaway (plural flyaways)

A stray hair that is difficult to style.

Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.

(gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.

Source: Wiktionary

Fly"a*way`, a.

Definition: Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. -- n.

Definition: A flyaway person or thing. "Truth is such a flyaway." Emerson.

flyaway adj.

1. frivolous; -- of people. serious Syn. -- flighty. [WordNet 1.5]

2. Tending to move away from a center, rather than remain in a compact group; -- used of hair or clothing or of small particles of matter. Light objects or particles readily taking a static electric charge may be moved apart by acquisition of a charge, or by approach of a charged object. Such a property is called flyaway. Syn. -- fluttering. [WordNet 1.5]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition