Meanings
flossy1
comparative flossier · superlative flossiest
- Resembling floss.
- informalslangExtravagantly showy; flashy
I am a go-getter, stay fresh and looking flossy Haters out here can’t stop me, throw blows like Ronda Rousey
2015, “Automatic Bizz” (track 9, 0:23–0:30 from the start), in Beto Lokz (lyrics), Automatic Bizz2 more examples
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.
1917, The Judge, volume 72The 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?
1973 December 29, Jonathan Cross, “The Fag In The Fifth Row”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 28, page 4
Flossy2
- A female given name, diminutive of Florence.
Synonyms & antonyms
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flossy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flossy
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