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flabby.

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

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈflæb.i/
  1. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.

  2. Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.

  3. overwrought.

    usually
  4. Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.

Where this word 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”).

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