Sekirov Dictionary

flannel

/ˈflænəl/

noun 5
verb 4
adjective 1
forms 5

noun5

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A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
- With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
(US) A flannel shirt.
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(UK, New-Zealand) A washcloth.
- "The Witch of Endor was a fool to her, sir: bless you, she would make no more of raising every gentleman in the Bible out of these here beastly tombs than I should of growing cress on an old flannel." — 1886
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(slang) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
- Don't talk flannel!
(UK, no longer used) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).

verb4

To rub with a flannel.
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(slang) To waffle or prevaricate.
- I got a little cross and asked him to stop flannelling and to tell me what was holding me back. Were my annual assessments below par? Was there something I had done – or not done? — 2016
To flatter; to suck up to.
To wrap in flannel.

adjective1

Made of flannel.

forms

flanneled · flannelled · flanneling · flannelling · flannels

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