lint
noun /lɪnt/
/lɪnt/
[uncountable]- (especially British English) a type of soft cotton cloth used for covering and protecting wounds
- (specialist) short fine fibres that come off the surface of cloth when it is being made
- (especially North American English) (British English usually fluff)small soft pieces of wool, cotton, etc. that stick on the surface of cloth
Word Originlate Middle English lynnet ‘flax prepared for spinning’, perhaps from Old French linette ‘linseed’, from lin ‘flax’.