flannels

Meaning of flannels

plural noun
  1. a kind of soft woven fabric, typically made of wool or cotton and slightly milled and raised.
    a check flannel shirt
  2. a small piece of towelling used for washing oneself.
  3. bland fluent talk indulged in to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly.
    a simple admittance of ignorance was much to be preferred to any amount of flannel
verb, 3rd person present
  1. use bland fluent talk to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly.
    he apologised for the situation and then flannelled on about ramping up production

Middle English: probably from Welsh gwlanen ‘woollen article’, from gwlân ‘wool’.

Information about flannels

  • The singular form of flannels is: flannel.
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Hyphenation of flannels

flan-nels

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • flannels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

flannels synonyms

Meaning a small towelling cloth for washing one's face:

facecloth

Meaning a piece of cloth for cleaning or covering something, e.g. a dishcloth or a tablecloth:

cloth

Meaning a cloth for washing one's face and body, typically made of terry cloth or other absorbent material:

washcloth

Meaning a facecloth:

washrag

Meaning a person or device that washes something:

washer

Meaning excessive and insincere praise, given especially to further one's own interests:

flattery

Meaning talk which aims to charm, flatter, or persuade (often considered typical of Irish people):

blarney

Meaning a flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something:

blandishments

Meaning the planting or trimming of hedges:

hedging

Meaning the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication:

equivocation

Meaning the action of evading something:

evasion

Meaning deliberately euphemistic, ambiguous, or obscure language:

doublespeak

Meaning spoken or written words that have no meaning or make no sense:

nonsense

Meaning waste material; refuse or litter:

rubbish

Meaning an elaborate or glib speech or story, typically one used by a salesperson:

spiel

Meaning foolish or deceptive talk; nonsense:

baloney

Meaning nonsense:

poppycock

Meaning nonsense; rubbish:

tripe, bosh

Meaning a narrow shelflike bed, typically one of two or more arranged one on top of the other:

bunk

Meaning lengthy but vague or trivial talk or writing:

waffle

Meaning the process of decaying:

rot

Meaning behave in an ingratiating manner:

smoodging

Meaning lavish praise and compliments on (someone), often insincerely and with the aim of furthering one's own interests:

flatter

Meaning speak or act in an evasive way:

prevaricate

Meaning surround with a hedge:

hedge

Meaning use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself:

equivocate

Meaning waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive:

vacillate

Meaning talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense:

blather

Meaning (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine:

stall

Meaning make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate:

tergiversate

Anagrams of flannels

fannells

Words that rhyme with flannels

Nels, empanels, fontanels, impanels, panels, repanels, subpanels, unpanels, weanels, crenels, spignels, centinels, sentinels, spinels, cracknels, spicknels, simnels, cannels, channels, chunnels, fannels, fennels, funnels, gennels, ginnels, gunnels, impannels, kennels, mischannels, multichannels, personnels, polytunnels, rechannels, ronnels, runnels, scrannels, stannels, subchannels, trunnels, tunnels, unkennels, unpannels, vennels, Monels, centonels, colonels, coronels, jargonels, lionels, mangonels

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