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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The Martindale’s chain flourished in Century City, Santa Monica, the Wilshire District and in Beverly Hills, where its clientele was so flossy that the store carried Paris Match and an Arabian-horse magazine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
I’m not a flossy man, so I don’t need a car that peacocks too loudly.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
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
Biggie actually scored two posthumous No. 1s, the only artist to do so—three months after “Hypnotize,” he was back on top with his flossy, Puffy and Mase–supported, Diana Ross–sampling summer jam “Mo Money Mo Problems.”
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2018
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
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
Wherever a motelman does well, he can soon expect a rival to try to set up an even flossier motel next door.
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
Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Civilians can still get their lowers if they do a little planning ahead, but when the pinch comes Army & Navy will push civilians right out of the flossiest streamliners.
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
Of late years the flossiest of playwrights, Maxwell Anderson in The Eve of St. Mark has contrived no elaborate plot, essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy.
From Time Magazine Archive
You'll be in at the finish, Dan," said London Bill; "an' for the others, pick out a dozen of the flossiest coves you can find.
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
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