Definitions for flosses

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flosses floss

Spelling: [flaws, flos]

IPA: /flɔs, flɒs/

Flosses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in flosses (eflosss).

Definitions for flosses

noun

1. the cottony fiber yielded by the silk-cotton tree.
2. silk filaments with little or no twist, used in weaving as brocade or in embroidery.
3. any silky, filamentous matter, as the silk of corn.
4. dental floss.

verb (used with object)

1. to clean (the teeth) with dental floss.

verb (used without object)

1. to use dental floss on the teeth.

Origin of flosses

1750-60; probably French floche, as in soie floche floss silk, Old French flosche down, velvet pile (of uncertain origin)

Examples for flosses

You floss up to the tallest domino and give him a good time.

His hair was long and curled at the ends, but it looked like floss silk.

The material most proper for them is floss wool, and they should be knitted with steel pins.

“I do not believe you would, floss,” agreed Helen, kissing her warmly.

Oh, sure, Joe has a tendency to floss with his own shoelaces.

As for floss, Helen had already got a hold upon that young lady.

I ventured to disagree with her, and to say that the Mill on the floss was my favorite.

It is a sadder book than 'The Mill on the floss,' of which it reminds us.

Tow typified the hair of the man; floss silk that of the boy.

I will floss my teeth because chimps have been known to floss their teeth.