different between flossy vs glossy

English

Etymology

floss +? -y

Pronunciation

Adjective

flossy (comparative flossier, superlative flossiest)

1. Resembling floss.
2. (informal, slang) Extravagantly showy; flashy
   • 1917, The Judge - Volume 72:

     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.

English

Etymology

gloss +? -y

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l?si/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?si/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??l?si/
• Rhymes: -?si, -??si

Adjective

glossy (comparative glossier, superlative glossiest)

1. Having a smooth, silk-like, reflective surface.

Antonyms

• matte

Translations

Noun

glossy (plural glossies)

1. (chiefly Britain, informal) A glossy magazine.

   The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.

2. (informal) A glossy photograph.
   • 2013, Stacy Zemon, The DJ Sales and Marketing Handbook

     Black and white 8- × 10-inch glossies are best, but 5- × 7-inch is okay too. Place photos on top of cardboard when mailing. Don't tape or paper-clip because doing so can ruin the photo.

3. (film, informal) A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles.
   • 1959, Film Review (page 102)

     Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman's and even a mother's heart beating strongly beneath her 'sister's' habit.

   • 1973, Films and Filming (volume 20, page 10)

     […] the first home-made guide to TV films by which is meant old films shown on the box, not those new Hollywood glossies made specially for it (though a guide there too would soon be welcome).