On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:27:26AM -0500, Joe Pickett wrote: > In Geneva Smitherman's "Black Talk," there is an entry for > > Flossin "Pretending, faking something;putting on a front; trying to > appear calm and cool." (Just to clarify, Joe is citing from the 2000 edition of this book; the original edition, in 1994, did not include this entry.) Jesse Sheidlower OED