flossy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6

Definition of flossy

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Resembling floss.
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adj

  1. Resembling floss.
  2. (informal, slang)Extravagantly showy; flashy
    “When a flossy girl comes along the street granting alike to the interested and the uninterested a sight of several inches of white stockings above her high boots, one's mind harks back to dear old Mother Goose, and the woman who went to market her eggs for to sell.”
    “The latest example of 30's camp-nostalgia opened last week at the Colonial for a three-week run; it is a big, flossy, stylish revival of Good News (vintage 1927), with Alice Faye, John Payne, and would you believe Stubby Kaye?”
    “I am a go-getter, stay fresh and looking flossy Haters out here can’t stop me, throw blows like Ronda Rousey”

name

  1. A female given name, diminutive of Florence.

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Etymology

From floss + -y.

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