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
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
Another variety bloomed in the curves of its bones, flossy and sheer and caramel-colored.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 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
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
Then they went on to bigger and flossier names on their doors, and other changes, until the president called a halt and broke everyone back to one-pen sets.
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
So began a four-year career as a torch singer, which took her into the spotlights of Manhattan's flossiest nightclubs, brought upwards of $1,000 a week.
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
In one of Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S.
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
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 Alfred Henry Lewis
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