floss

Etymology 1


. Perhaps from (attested in 🇨🇬), related to 🇨🇬. Alternatively from, from , from , from , probably from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 dialectal, 🇨🇬 (tr=17c.).

Noun

 * 1) A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
 * 2) Raw silk fibres.
 * 3) The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
 * 4) Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
 * 5)  Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
 * 6) A body feather of an ostrich.
 * 7) A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
 * 1) A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
 * 1) A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.

Translations

 * Arabic: خَيْط أَسْنَان
 * Armenian: ատամի թել
 * Bulgarian: коне́ц за зъ́би
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 牙線
 * Hokkien: 齒線
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: οδοντόνημα, οδοντική μέταξα
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: filo interdentale
 * Japanese: デンタルフロス,
 * Maori: miro niho
 * Navajo: wókʼiz naadǫ́zí, awókʼiz análdiłí, awókʼiz bee naʼnildizí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tanntråd
 * Nynorsk: tanntråd
 * Polish: nić dentystyczna
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ață dentară
 * Russian: ни́тка для чи́стки зубо́в, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: chỉ nha khoa


 * Bulgarian: необработена коприна
 * Danish: floretsilke, råsilke
 * Finnish: raakasilkki
 * German: Rohseide, Seidenfaser
 * Greek: ακατέργαστο μετάξι


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: Maiskolbenfaser
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: захарен памук
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: μαλλί της γριάς
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: zucchero filato
 * Maori: wūru huka
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To clean the area between (the ) using floss.
 * I don't floss very often.
 * I floss my teeth twice a day.
 * 1)   To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.
 * 2) To perform the floss dance move.
 * 1) To perform the floss dance move.
 * 1) To perform the floss dance move.
 * 1) To perform the floss dance move.

Etymology 2
From dialectal, from , , , , perhaps from , from , ultimately related to. Compare also 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A small stream of water.
 * 2) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,

Etymology 3
Origin. Perhaps of origin. Compare 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1)  The common rush.