flannel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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."”

3. isim A flannel shirt.
4. isim Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

   “Don't talk flannel!”

5. isim Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
6. sıfat Made of flannel.
7. fiil To rub with a flannel.
8. fiil To wrap in flannel.
9. fiil To flatter; to suck up to.
10. fiil 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?”