adjective · rare

flabby

flabby · flabbier · flabbiest

рівний, плоский, плаский

дряблый

flach, schwabbelig, wabbelig, schlabberig

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shakenYielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.

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/ˈflæb.i/

» I think that Tom is flabby.

Meaning

4 senses

Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
schlabberig, wabbelig, schwabbelig
дряблыйdrjablyj
Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
flach
(usually)Overwrought.
Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.
a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space

More definitions

out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance

Examples

6 sentences

I think that Tom is flabby.
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I didn't realize I was getting so flabby.
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I didn't realize that I was getting so flabby.
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I think Tom is flabby.
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I'm not flabby.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

yielding to the touch:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

yielding to the touch:

wine: having a lack of acidity:

Origin

From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“

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”).

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