flannell

Noun

flannel (countable and uncountable, plural flannels)

1. (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
   • With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.
2. (New Zealand, UK, countable) A washcloth.
   • "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."1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
3. (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
4. (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
   • Don't talk flannel!
5. (UK, obsolete) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).

   Synonyms:

   flip

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