flabby

[ flab-ee ]

/ ˈflæb i /

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adjective, flab·bi·er, flab·bi·est.

hanging loosely or limply, as flesh or muscles; flaccid.

having such flesh.

lacking strength or determination.

Origin of flabby

1690–1700; apparently expressive alteration of earlier flappy, with same sense; see flap, -y¹; compare late Middle English flabband (attested once), evidently with sense “flapping”

OTHER WORDS FROM flabby

flab·bi·ly, adverb flab·bi·ness, noun

Words nearby flabby

fl. oz., fla., flab, flabbergast, flabbergasted, flabby, flabellate, flabelli-, flabellum, flaccid, flack

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After a night with football legend Joe Namath, she told her driver that Namath was “flabby.”

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In a Rolling Stone article about Secretary of State Clinton, he referred to her “flabby arms.”

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No; Parlyment's a played-out fraud, flabby and footy, flat and faddy.

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 25, 1891 |Various
Then, valuable as dialogue is, it may be redundant, and make a play "flabby."

The Black Cat |John Todhunter
I put my hand on his; his hand was fat and flabby, not the firm, brown, muscular hand that I used to remember.

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The flabby individual wiped his forehead and signed to a trembling assistant.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 6, 1917 |Various
Their flabby cravats were twisted into ropes as soon as they wound them about their throats.

Eugenie Grandet |Honore de Balzac

British Dictionary definitions for flabby

flabby

/ (ˈflæbɪ) /

adjective -bier or -biest

lacking firmness; loose or yielding flabby muscles

having flabby flesh, esp through being overweight

lacking vitality; weak; ineffectual

Derived forms of flabby

flabbily, adverb flabbiness, noun

Word Origin for flabby

C17: alteration of flappy, from flap + -y 1; compare Dutch flabbe drooping lip

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flabby

adjective, flab·bi·er, flab·bi·est.

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British Dictionary definitions for flabby

adjective -bier or -biest

Derived forms of flabby

Word Origin for flabby

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flabby

adjective, flab·bi·er, flab·bi·est.

Origin of flabby

OTHER WORDS FROM flabby

Words nearby flabby

Words related to flabby

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adjective -bier or -biest

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