flannel
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Is flannel a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of flannel?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.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."uncountable
2. (New Zealand, British, countable) A washcloth.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.""BritishNew-Zealandcountable
3. (US, countable) A flannel shirt.UScountable
4. (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.Examples: "Don't talk flannel!"slanguncountable
5. (UK, obsolete) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).Synonyms: flipUKcountableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To rub with a flannel.transitive
2. (transitive) To wrap in flannel.transitive
3. (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.transitive
4. (transitive, slang) To waffle or prevaricate.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?"slangtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary