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say it: SHOO-flahy
shoofly is a noun meaning "an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen". It is pronounced /ˈʃuˌflaɪ/ — SHOO-flahy. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shoofly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.