Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of flannel material.

Etymologies

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flannel +‎ -y

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Examples

  • One has to be both able to be completely ruthless about the excision of every bit of weak prose or flannelly excess, while simultaneously being quietly kind to oneself in order to counteract the tendency to decry everything one has ever done as total BullS**t.

    Thursday ... Imogen 2009

  • One has to be both able to be completely ruthless about the excision of every bit of weak prose or flannelly excess, while simultaneously being quietly kind to oneself in order to counteract the tendency to decry everything one has ever done as total BullS**t.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Imogen 2009

  • Yoo got teh smooth wood, teh soft kitteh furr, teh soft flannelly-cloth ob teh sheets, and the nubbley-texure ob teh bitty bear–yoo gots plads, stripes, pebbleys an wood grain.

    WUV - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • He smiles easily, speaks in a flannelly Texas drawl only partially blunted by his 40 years in the New York and international art worlds.

    Back To The Future 2008

  • Does a soft, a crisp, a sleek, or a flannelly feel suit you best?

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Does a soft, a crisp, a sleek, or a flannelly feel suit you best?

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Does a soft, a crisp, a sleek, or a flannelly feel suit you best?

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Does a soft, a crisp, a sleek, or a flannelly feel suit you best?

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Bright blue, flannelly-looking flowers stud the grass in sheltered places and a very pretty large green orchid is plentiful.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • Wild oranges, too, are found on Mount Haghier, of a very rich yellow when ripe, but bitter as gall to eat; and the wild pomegranate, with its lovely red flowers and small yellow fruit, the flannelly coating of which only is eaten, instead of the seeds, as is the case with the cultivated one.

    Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

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