Flabby
['flæbɪ] or ['flæbi]
Definition
(a.) Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.
Editor: Ozzie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Soft, yielding, FLACCID.
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Definition
adj. easily moved: soft yielding: hanging loose.—n. Flabb′iness.
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Examples
- This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Stretching forth his flabby paw, Mr. Chadband lays the same on Jo's arm and considers where to station him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My very bones is rendered flabby by brooding over it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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