different between flannel vs plush

English

Alternative forms

• flannen (dialectal)
• flanan, flanning, flanen (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English flaunneol, from Anglo-Norman flanelle (compare Norman flianné), diminutive of Old French flaine, floene (“coarse wool”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *wl?nos, *wlan? (“wool”) (compare Welsh gwlân, Breton gloan), from Proto-Indo-European *h?w??h?neh?. More at wool.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæn?l/
• Rhymes: -æn?l
• Hyphenation: flan?nel

Noun

flannel (countable and uncountable, plural flannels)

1. (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.

   With the weather turning colder, it was time to dig out our flannel sheets and nightclothes.

   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[1]

     First singer and guitarist Marcus Mumford, wearing a black suit, then bassist Ted Dwane, in leather bomber and T-shirt. Next bearded banjo player Winston Marshall, his blue flannel shirt hanging loose, and pianist Ben Lovett, wrapped in a woollen coat.

2. (New Zealand, Australia, Britain, countable) A washcloth.
3. (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
4. (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

   Don't talk flannel!

Derived terms

Descendants

• Chinese:
  • ? Mandarin: ??? (f?lánróng)
• ? Danish: flannel
• ? French: flanelle (see there for further descendants)
• ? Japanese: ????? (furaneru)

Translations

Adjective

flannel (not comparable)

1. Made of flannel.

Translations

Verb

flannel (third-person singular simple present flannels, present participle flanneling or flannelling, simple past and past participle flanneled or flannelled)

1. (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
2. (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
3. (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.

Anagrams

• fannell

Danish

Etymology

From English flannel. Cognate to flonel and to Welsh gwlân (“wool”).

Noun

flannel

1. soft, slightly scratched woven fabric made of wool

References

• “flannel” in Den Danske Ordbog

English

Etymology

From French peluche (“fluff, plush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

plush (comparative plusher, superlative plushest)

1. (Britain) Very extravagant.
2. (Britain) Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.

   They lived in a plush apartment complex.

3. (of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.

   This plush toy is so cute and soft - I want it!

Translations

Noun

plush (countable and uncountable, plural plushes)

1. A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.

2. A plush toy.
   • 2002, Billboard (volume 114, number 9, 2 March 2002, page 70)

     When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.

   • 2008, Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands (page 94)

     For a small fee, the player can control a crane equipped with a gripper to pick a gift, usually a plush or a small toy, and has to drop it in a place where he/she can grab it.

   • 2011, Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 (page 759)

     […] L.A. Prop Cinema Storage, full of kids' clothing (mostly for girls), PJs, and lots of toys and plushes (there's also a substantial infant area).

Translations

Derived terms

• plushen
• plushie
• plushly
• plushness
• plushophile
• plushophilia
• plushy

Anagrams

• Puhls, sulph-