English
Pronunciation
Noun
dental floss (usually uncountable, plural dental flosses)
- A cord of thin filaments used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
- Hypernyms: floss (elliptically synonymous when the context is clear), cord
- (colloquial, humorous, sometimes in similes) Extremely skimpy clothing.
- 2011, D. V. Bernard, How to Kill Your Boyfriend (in 10 Easy Steps) (page 64)
- She was wearing a bikini top, but she may as well have been wearing dental floss, as the bikini top barely even covered her nipples and areolas.
2013, Dr. Akeam A. Simmons, Grace and a Thug:[…] and watch them young girls walk by wearing dental floss for a bathing suit.
Translations
cord of thin filaments used to clean the gaps between the teeth
- Afrikaans: tandevlos
- Albanian: fije dentare f
- Arabic: خَيْط أَسْنَان m (ḵayṭ ʔasnān), خَيْط سِنِّيّ m (ḵayṭ sinniyy)
- Armenian: ատամի թել (atami tʻel)
- Azerbaijani: diş sapı
- Belarusian: зубна́я ні́тка f (zubnája nítka)
- Bulgarian: коне́ц за зъ́би m (konéc za zǎ́bi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 牙線 / 牙线 (ngaa4 sin3)
- Hokkien: 齒線 / 齿线 (khí-soàⁿ)
- Mandarin: 牙線 / 牙线 (zh) (yáxiàn)
- Czech: zubní nit f
- Danish: tandtråd (da) c
- Dutch: tandzijde (nl) f
- Estonian: hambaniit (et)
- Finnish: hammaslanka (fi)
- French: fil dentaire (fr) m, soie dentaire (fr) f (Canada)
- Georgian: კბილის ძაფი (ḳbilis ʒapi)
- German: Zahnseide (de) f
- Greek: οδοντόνημα n (odontónima), οδοντική μέταξα f (odontikí métaxa) (medical), οδοντικό νήμα n (odontikó níma)
- Hindi: दंत-लोमक (dant-lomak)
- Hungarian: fogselyem (hu)
- Icelandic: tannþráður m
- Irish: flas fiacla m
- Italian: filo interdentale m
- Japanese: デンタルフロス (ja) (dentaru furosu), フロス (ja) (furosu)
- Kazakh: тіс жібі (tıs jıbı)
- Korean: 치실 (chisil), 플로스 (peulloseu)
- Kyrgyz: тиш жиби (tiş jibi)
- Latvian: zobu diegs m
- Lithuanian: dantų siūlas m
- Macedonian: за́бен ко́нец m (záben kónec)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Māori: miro niho
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: шүдний утас (šüdnii utas)
- Mongolian script: ᠰᠢᠳᠦᠨ ᠦ
ᠤᠲᠠᠰᠤ (sidün-ü utasu)
- Navajo: awókʼiz análdiłí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tanntråd m
- Nynorsk: tanntråd m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: نَخِ دَنْدان (nax-e dandân), نَخِ دَنْدون (nax-e dandun) (colloquial, Tehrani)
- Polish: nić dentystyczna (pl) f
- Portuguese: fio dental (pt) m
- Romanian: ață dentară f
- Russian: ни́тка для чи́стки зубо́в f (nítka dlja čístki zubóv), зубна́я нить (ru) f (zubnája nitʹ), флосс (ru) m (floss)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: конац за зубе m, зубни конац m
- Latin: konac za zube m, zubni konac m
- Slovak: zubná niť f
- Slovene: zobna nitka f
- Spanish: hilo dental (es) m, seda dental f
- Swedish: tandtråd (sv) c
- Tajik: нахи дандон (nax-i dandon)
- Thai: ไหมขัดฟัน (mǎi-kàt-fan)
- Tibetan: སོ་སྐུད (so skud)
- Turkish: diş ipi
- Turkmen: diş ýüpi
- Ukrainian: зубна́ ни́тка f (zubná nýtka)
- Uyghur: چىش يىپى (chish yipi)
- Uzbek: tish ipi
- Vietnamese: chỉ nha khoa (literally “dentistry thread”)
- Welsh: edau ddeintiol f, edau ddanedd f
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