flossy
Americanadjective
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made of or resembling floss; downy.
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showily stylish; excessively ornamented or fancy.
adjective
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consisting of or resembling floss
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slang (esp of dress) showy
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Origin of flossy
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I would lay flowers at the grave of Ago, a flossy Italian restaurant on Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood, gone in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Plump pods and flossy seed heads signal the end of this year’s growing season while holding the germ of the next.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
Another variety bloomed in the curves of its bones, flossy and sheer and caramel-colored.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
With his pale eyes, flossy hair and rugged features, Crowell is more evidently the country-music grandee – an imposing Texan in a black silk scarf and matching trilby.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
Before it had been tacky and flossy and drab.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Back on dry land, the flossier parts of L.A. have new “lifestyle clubs,” some invitation only, all of them evidently requiring a matchmaking interview that sounds like facing a New York condo board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
By the evidence of these two songs, Thank U, Next the album will be a heel turn compared with its predecessor—snarkier and flossier.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2019
Unlike its flossier rivals, sensible, flat-heeled, B. H. & G. talks in folksy, conversational style to the middle-income family, which it advises how to do almost everything.
From Time Magazine Archive
Americans are undoubtedly the world's highest-paid people, though Europeans and Japanese collect far flossier fringe benefits.
From Time Magazine Archive
The finished product was flossier, in a restrained, global way, than either El Morocco or Club "21," and could be reached by both the I.R.T. and Independent subways.
From Time Magazine Archive
A short while later, the Brownells headed up a receiving line to launch the flossiest debut dance of the capital's coming-out season.
From Time Magazine Archive
Parents no longer built special ballrooms on their country estates, or spent $10,000 for decorations, or hired 50-piece orchestras, or gutted Broadway's flossiest nightclubs for entertainment.
From Time Magazine Archive
They send out the glossiest catalogues, give the flossiest cocktail parties.
From Time Magazine Archive
Faced with those figures, some of the world's flossiest manufacturers are reaching out to the bigger customers with cashmere and silks, gabardines and fine cottons.
From Time Magazine Archive
After you've been on the road for ten years a real Sunday dinner in a real home has got Sherry's flossiest efforts looking like a picnic collation with ants in the pie.
From Roast Beef, Medium by Ferber, Edna
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