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[ flab -ee ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈflæb i / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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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, Fla., flab, flabbergast, flabbergasted, flabby , flabellate, flabelli-, flabellum, flaccid, flack
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Example sentences from the Web for flabby After a night with football legend Joe Namath, she told her driver that Namath was “flabby .”
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He was twenty-five and in peak physical condition when he went in, but a flabby thirty when he came out.
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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.
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.
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British Dictionary definitions for flabby 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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Words related to flabby lax, sloppy, drooping, enervated, flaccid, floppy, hanging, limp, loose, pendulous, rusty, shapeless, slack, soft, tender, unfit, yielding, flexuous, out of condition, out of shape