单词 | flippy-floppy |
释义 | flippy-floppyadj. colloquial. = floppy adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > drooping or hanging limply droop?1507 flagging1540 sag1541 lolling1567 flaggy1576 fagged1578 flag1591 drooping1600 slouching1611 emarcid1661 flaggish1669 slouchy1693 tangly1812 sunken1823 adroop1833 saggy1853 loppy1855 floppy1858 drooped1873 flippy-floppy1905 1905 V. Colby Jrnl. 10 Nov. in M. H. Carpenter Sara Teasdale (1960) 73 She knew it would be dog's-eared and skinny and flippy-floppy like the Ladies' Home Journal. 1922 D. Cory Iceberg Express 14 The breeze suddenly blew it to one side, and there on the sand, instead of her two little shoes, was a mermaid's tail, with a flippy-floppy fin on the end! 1995 Scotsman 21 Oct. (WeekEnd section) 10/1 Why are all the major working Scottish pop bands Glaswegian, and all the dipso flippy-floppy avant-jazzers from the Burg? 2003 Sunday Territorian (Austral.) (Nexis) 5 Jan. 23 Let's face it, the Pommie with the goo-goo eyes and flippy floppy hair only ever acts as himself, a sort of feckless, loose goose with a few bob. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1905 |
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