# flannel
## English
### Alternative forms

* flannen (dialectal)
* flanan, flanning, flanen (Scotland)

### Etymology

From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wlānos, *wlanā (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂. More at wool.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflænəl/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ænəl
* Hyphenation: flan‧nel

### Noun

flannel (countable and uncountable, plural flannels)
* (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
    Coordinate term: tartan
    With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
** 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, “How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world”, in The Daily Telegraph‎:First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.
* (New Zealand, British, countable) A washcloth.
** 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:"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."
* (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
* (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
    Don't talk flannel!
* (UK, obsolete) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”)

#### Derived terms

* Adam's flannel
* Canton flannel
* Crimean flannel
* face flannel
* flannelboard
* flannelbush
* flannel cake
* flannel dance
* flannelette
* flannel flower
* flannelgraph
* flannellike
* flannelly
* flannel moth
* flannel mouth
* flannel-mouth
* flannelmouth
* flannel-mouthed
* flannel panel
* flannelweed
* flannen
* flannie
* flanno
* outing flannel
* unflannelled
* Welsh flannel

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Chinese: 法蘭絨／法兰绒 (fǎlánróng)
* → Danish: flannel
* → French: flanelle
** → Catalan: franel·la
** → Dutch: flanel
*** Afrikaans: flanel
** → German: Flanell
*** → Danish: flonel
** → Italian: flanella
** → Luxembourgish: Flanell
** → Portuguese: flanela
** → Spanish: franela
*** → Tagalog: pranela
*** → Egyptian Arabic: فنلّة
** → Swedish: flanell
* → Japanese: フランネル (furaneru)

#### Translations
### Adjective

flannel (not comparable)
* Made of flannel.

#### Translations
### Verb

flannel (third-person singular simple present flannels, present participle flanneling or flannelling, simple past and past participle flanneled or flannelled)
* (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
* (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
* (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.
* (transitive, slang) To waffle or prevaricate.
** 2016, J. F. Langer, From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office: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?

### Anagrams

* fannell

## Danish
### Etymology

From English flannel. Cognate to flonel and to Welsh gwlân (“wool”).

### Noun

flannel
* soft, slightly scratched woven fabric made of wool

### References

* “flannel” in Den Danske Ordbog