Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Soft fatty body tissue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the cap of any large mushroom. Also flap.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Loose or flaccid body fat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. loose or flaccid body fat
Etymologies
- Back-formation from flabby. (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from flabby. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Of course, like any broad, she takes off until the flab is run off the love-handles, but remember that it was the ship Jenny that got the real one to come around, and considering what it went through at the hands of a mildly-retarded man-child (the fucking thing went through a dock for Chrissakes), that it floated around long enough to produce anything is amazing.”
“The only thing "real" about snookie besides her flab is her herpes/hep”
“Also, the Finance Ministry claims that under Brodet, during the years 2008 to 2010, the defense establishment was supposed to cut NIS 3 billion in "flab" and to use that money to strengthen its force.”
“Courteney Cox was "scared to death" of showing her "flab" on camera.”
“Courteney Cox was "scared to death" of showing her "flab" on camera ....”
“Even people who are not obese might be happy to part with a couple of pounds of "flab", suggested the researchers.”
“Bollywood is an industry where audiences by and large like 'flab'.”
“-- the edit removes more than "flab": it discards the furniture of real speech, which includes the routine repetitions and qualifications that cushion conversation.”
The Huffington Post: David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model
“-the edit removes more than "flab": it discards the furniture of real speech, which includes the routine repetitions and qualifications that cushion conversation.”
The Huffington Post: David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model
“Check “Spice It Up” on page 122 for plenty of other ways to increase flavor without increasing flab.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flab’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Weird Words
Words that sound strange
flesh, moist, supple, ample, flab, tardy, fork, umber, glasses, paper, mellifluous
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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My Least Favourite Words
morose, neurotic, paperwork, ruminate, litigation, gloom, depression, despair, dictator, politics, procrastination, reorganisation and 72 more...
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four-letter words ending with a 'b'
stub, stab, bomb, bulb, dumb, jamb, blob, club, drab, grab, slab, slob and 18 more...
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11227 telegraph hf
elasticated, buckle, super-sizing, billowing, soar, obese, wolf down, flanked, imposing, culinary, temple to, cabinet of and 22 more...
Tweets
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a bloodhound's eyes,
flab droops.
- Peter Reading, Travelogue, from Nothing for Anyone, 1977 Jun 26, 2008