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flannelling

flannelling is the present participle and gerund of flannel.

Meaning of flannel

Verb

flannel (third-person singular simple present flannels, present participle (US) flanneling or (UK) flannelling, simple past and past participle (US) flanneled or (UK) flannelled)

  1. (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
  2. (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
  3. (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.
  4. (slang, transitive) To waffle or prevaricate.
    • 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?2016, J. F. Langer, From the Spitfire Cockpit to the Cabinet Office

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Questions about flannelling

What is flannelling the present participle and gerund of?
Flannelling is the present participle and gerund of flannel.

Words near flannelling in the dictionary

  1. flannell
  2. flannelled
  3. flannelled fool
  4. flannelled fools
  5. flannellike
  6. flannelling
  7. flannells
  8. flannelly
  9. flannelmouth
  10. flannelmouthed
  11. flannelmouths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flannelling (page history and authors); flannel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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