adj
Meaning 1
Made of flannel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
flannel
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/ˈflænəl/
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noun
Meaning 2
A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
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noun
Meaning 3
A washcloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, UK, countable
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noun
Meaning 4
A flannel shirt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable
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noun
Meaning 5
Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
Examples
- Don't talk flannel!
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 6
Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flip
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To rub with a flannel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To wrap in flannel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To flatter; to suck up to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fawn, toady, apple-polish, bootlick, bow and scrape, brownnose, butter up, dickride, duchess, fawn over, fellate, flannel, honey around, honey up, kiss someone's ass, kiss someone's ring, kiss up, kowtow, lick someone's ass, lick someone's balls, overflatter, overpraise, overrate, suck up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To waffle or prevaricate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, transitive
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noun
Meaning 11
a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fabric, cloth, material, textile
noun
Meaning 12
(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gabardine, tweed, white
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: trouser, pant
noun
Meaning 13
bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: washcloth, washrag, face cloth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bath linen
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: фланелен (flanelen) — made of flannel
- Dutch: flanellen — made of flannel
- Finnish: flanellinen — made of flannel
- Hungarian: flanel — made of flannel
- Macedonian: фла́нелен (flánelen) — made of flannel
- Polish: flanelowy — made of flannel
- Russian: флане́левый (flanɛ́levyj) — made of flannel
- Scots: flannen — made of flannel
- Scottish Gaelic: flanainn — made of flannel
- Yiddish: בײַקן (baykn) — made of flannel
- Yiddish: פֿלאַנעלן (flaneln) — made of flannel
- Ahtna: ukʼekodyuutsʼi — soft cloth material
- Bulgarian: флане́ла (flanéla) — soft cloth material
- Catalan: franel·la — soft cloth material
- Chinese Mandarin: 絨布 /绒布 (róngbù) — soft cloth material
- Chinese Mandarin: 法蘭絨 /法兰绒 (fǎlánróng) — soft cloth material
- Czech: flanel — soft cloth material
- Danish: flannel — soft cloth material
- Danish: flonel — soft cloth material
- Dutch: flanel — soft cloth material
- Esperanto: flanelo — soft cloth material
- Finnish: flanelli — soft cloth material
- French: flanelle — soft cloth material
- Gagauz: fanila — soft cloth material
- Galician: flanela — soft cloth material
- German: Flanell — soft cloth material
- Hungarian: flanel — soft cloth material
- Ingrian: flaneli — soft cloth material
- Irish: flainín — soft cloth material
- Italian: flanella — soft cloth material
- Japanese: フランネル (furanneru) — soft cloth material
- Japanese: ネル (neru) — soft cloth material
- Japanese: フラノ (furano) — soft cloth material
- Korean: 플란넬 (peullannel) — soft cloth material
- Central Kurdish: فانیلھ (fanîlh) — soft cloth material
- Macedonian: фла́нел (flánel) — soft cloth material
- Māori: paranene — soft cloth material
- Norman: flianné — soft cloth material
- Polish: flanela — soft cloth material
- Portuguese: flanela — soft cloth material
- Russian: флане́ль (flanɛ́lʹ) — soft cloth material
- Scots: flannen — soft cloth material
- Scottish Gaelic: flanainn — soft cloth material
- Spanish: franela — soft cloth material
- Swedish: flanell — soft cloth material
- Tagalog: pranela — soft cloth material
- Venetan: fanèla — soft cloth material
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