flushing

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of flush

Noun

• The act by which something is flushed.
• A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy.
• A surface formed of floating threads.

Origin

• flush + -ing
• From Middle English flusshyng, flusshynge, equivalent to flush + -ing.
• Named after the dated anglicized Dutch city name Flushing where the wool was made, from Dutch Vlissingen, further etymology is uncertain.