flosh
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
flosh (uncountable)
- Alternative form of floss (“fibres of corncob, bean plants, etc.”)
Etymology 2 edit
Compare German Flösse (“trough in which tin ore is washed”).
Noun edit
flosh (plural floshes)
References edit
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Flosh”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “flosh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.