flabby
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flabby
- /ˈflæb.i/
Rhymes with -æbi
Where it comes from
From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“flabby”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), Middle Low German flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), Danish flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), Swedish flabb, fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), German Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”).
adjective flabbier · flabbiest
- Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid. My attention was accidentally drawn to this aid, some five or six years ago, while attending a lady (multipara) in her confinement, who suffered from umbilical hernia, with large flabby abdomen.
- Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness. A flabby wine might be described as a wine in which nothing stands out.
- overwrought. As you revise, focus on eliminating flabby expressions. This takes conscious effort. As one expert copyeditor observed, “Trim sentences, like trim bodies, usually require far more effort than flabby ones.
- Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain. a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space
