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flanno

flanno noun: a flannelette shirt.

Noun

flanno (plural flannos)

  1. (Australia, attributive, informal, often) A flannelette shirt.
    • When I started teaching I thought I'd better dress like an adult, so I bought lots of 'grown-up' clothes. […] They were replaced with jeans, T-shirts, flannos, sweatshirts and, in Canberra, duffle coats and beanies.2012, Ned Manning, Playground Duty, page 94
    • There is a general notion of how this stereotype dresses (flannos and ugg boots and mullet hairdos) and eats (pizza and Coke).2014, Susan Butler, The Aitch Factor
    Synonyms:
    flannie

Synonyms of flanno

Forms of flanno

pluralflannos

Origin of flanno

From flannel + -o.

Questions about flanno

What does flanno mean?
Flanno means a flannelette shirt.
What part of speech is flanno?
Flanno is a noun.
What is the plural of flanno?
The plural of flanno is flannos.

Words near flanno in the dictionary

  1. flannies
  2. Flannigan
  3. Flannigans
  4. flanning
  5. flannings
  6. flanno
  7. flannos
  8. flanny
  9. flanque
  10. flanques
  11. flans

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