flabby

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  1. adjective Lacking firmness; flaccid: getting flabby around the waist. See Synonyms at limp.
  2. adjective Lacking force or vitality; ineffectual: flabby self-pity.

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  • My body will surely be flabby, and I wonder if I can take some fat burner products after the op? —  Shoppingmum
  • And Harper's is a little flabby -- aren't murder mysteries supposed to be intense? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • I've also had some aged cult cabernets that were awful after 10 years - flabby, syrupy sweet messes that were not very pleasant to drink. —  The Pour
  • I always have been slender for the most part after having babies my figure was flabby, my strong legs were gone, etc. Bad news! —  About.com Exercise
  • Decent actors, but the plot is contrived, flabby, and worthy of the Oxygen network. —  Atlantic Ave.
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flaccid ·  pudgy ·  fleshy ·  pendulous ·  scaly ·  hairless ·  wither ·  rubbery ·  furry ·  shapely ·  hair-roughened ·  fleshless
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Alteration of flappy, tending to flap, from flap.

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  1. A colloq. or dial. word of comparatively recent appearance in literature; it may be regarded as a variant of flappy, from flap, hang loose; cf. English dial. flapsy, flabby. Cf. Old Dutch flabbe, a blow in the face, also a contemptuous name for the tongue; Swedish fläbb, the hanging under lip of animals, flabb, an animal's snout; Danish flab, the chaps (also, as a term of abuse, a malapert); G. (pop.) flabbe, the mouth. Cf. also flabbergast, flabberkin.
 

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