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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained]
2: (of hair or clothing) worn loose; "her flyaway hair"; "a flyaway coat"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1844 1. loose and flowing especially because of unconfined fullness at the back <a flyaway jacket> 2. of, relating to, or being an aircraft that is ready to fly <the plane's flyaway price>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flyaway Fly"a*way`, a. Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. -- n. A flyaway person or thing. ``Truth is such a flyaway.'' --Emerson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Flyaway hair is very soft and fine. (WRITTEN) ADJ: usu ADJ n