flannel

Plural: flannels

Noun

a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body
(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
A washcloth.
A flannel shirt.
Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).

Adj

Made of flannel.

Verb

To rub with a flannel.
To wrap in flannel.
To flatter; to suck up to.
To waffle or prevaricate.

Examples

"Don't talk flannel!"
"With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes."

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

face cloth, flip, gabardine, tweed, washcloth, washrag, white

Scrabble Score: 10

flannel is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
flannel is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
flannel is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

flannel is a valid Words With Friends word