Usually means: Deceiving with smooth, persuasive talk.
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  1. flanneling: Collins English Dictionary
  2. flanneling: Wiktionary
  3. flanneling: Dictionary.com
  4. flanneling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flanneling: Encyclopedia

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  1. flanneling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See flannel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flannel)

noun:  (uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.
noun:  (New Zealand, British, countable) A washcloth.
noun:  (US, countable) A flannel shirt.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.
noun:  (UK, obsolete) Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”)
adjective:  Made of flannel.
verb:  (transitive) To rub with a flannel.
verb:  (transitive) To wrap in flannel.
verb:  (transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To waffle or prevaricate.
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