flannel
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: flannels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flannen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: flanan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: flanning
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: flanen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: flannen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: flanan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: flanning
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: flanen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: flannels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flanneling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: flannelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: flanneled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: flanneled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: flannelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: flannelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: flannen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: flanan
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: flanning
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: flanen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
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.
There’s a communal memory of [Kurt] Cobain’s wearing flannel in this video, and that this image was the dawn of grunge fashion.
gloss: A washcloth.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
UK
countable
examples: "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."
gloss: A flannel shirt.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Don't talk flannel!
gloss: Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Made of flannel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To rub with a flannel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To wrap in flannel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To flatter; to suck up to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To waffle or prevaricate.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: 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?
Derived words: Adam's flannel
Canton flannel
Crimean flannel
face flannel
flannelboard
flannelbush
flannel cake
flannel dance
flannelette
flannel flower
flannelgraph
flannel leaf
flannellike
flannelly
flannel moth
flannel-mouthed
flannelmouth
flannel-mouth
flannel mouth
flannel panel
flannelweed
flannen
flannie
flanno
outing flannel
unflannelled
Welsh flannel
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