Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To clean the area between (the teeth) using floss. · To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent. · To perform the floss dance move.
A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth. · Raw silk fibres. · The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans. · Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
Unclear: * Possibly from French floche (“tuft of wool”), from floc, from Old French flosche (“down, velvet”), from Latin floccus (“piece of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokkō (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkô (“down, piece of wool, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). * Or, from Middle English *flos (attested in Middle English Flosmonger (a surname)), from Proto-West Germanic *fleus, related to English fleece. Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”), Dutch flos (“plush”) (tr=17c.).
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- Borrowed-form mentionflochefr
- Derivation mentionfloschefro · down, velvet
- Derivation mentionfloccusla · piece of wool
- Derivation mention*flukkôgem-pro · down, piece of wool, flock
- Derivation mention*plewk-ine-pro · hair, fibres, tuft
- Inherited-form mention*flosenm
- Cognate mentionFlosmongerenm
- Derivation mention*fleusgmw-pro
- Cognate mentionfleeceen
- Cognate mentionflockogoh
- Cognate mentionvlockedum
- Cognate mentionflosnl
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