Definition of "flannel" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) 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. (New Zealand, British, countable) A washcloth.

3. (US, countable) A flannel shirt.

4. (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

   • Don't talk flannel!

5. (UK, obsolete) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).

adjective

1. Made of flannel.

verb

1. (transitive) To rub with a flannel.

2. (transitive) To wrap in flannel.

3. (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.

4. (transitive, slang) To waffle or prevaricate.