Flannel

Quick meaning: Flannel is a noun meaning (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.

Meaning

(uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.

More Meanings

1. (New Zealand, British, countable) A washcloth.
2. (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
3. (UK, obsolete) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
4. Made of flannel.
5. (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
6. (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
7. (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

Example Sentences

Don't talk flannel!

With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.

There’s a communal memory of [Kurt] Cobain’s wearing flannel in this video, and that this image was the dawn of grunge fashion.

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?

Word Forms

• flannels
• flannen
• flanan
• flanning
• flanen
• flanneling
• flannelling
• flanneled
• flannelled

Synonyms for flannel

Depending on context, synonyms include flip, toady, apple-polish, bootlick, brownnose, dickride.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tweed, gabardine, washrag, washcloth, white, outing.

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