flannel🔊

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.

(obsolete) (hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.)

Made of flannel.

To rub with a flannel.

To wrap in flannel.

To flatter; to suck up to.

(slang) To waffle or prevaricate.