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flossy
adj 2name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
big, fresh, stylish
VERB + FLOSSY
looking
FLOSSY + NOUN
girl, haters, revival
PREP.
along, out
Definitions
adj
1
Resembling floss.
2
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?
name
1
A female given name, diminutive of Florence.
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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 Mot
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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 woul
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I am a go-getter, stay fresh and looking flossy Haters out here can’t stop me, throw blows like Ronda Rousey
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