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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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
The meat is shredded into flossy, slightly chewy tendrils that are gently charred around the edges on the grill and piled into aluminum to-go containers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
No visitor can fail to note the soot-smudged dinginess of the Habana Riviera and the Habana Libre, once the city's flossiest hotels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The flossiest kind of thing they got is only ten cents a order.
From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber
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