Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of flail.
- n. A flailing action or motion.
Examples
“But try anyway, your hysterical flailing is quite amusing.”
“More screaming and flailing from the floor of the House will not, as Boehner said, "reflect the will of the American people.”
“John McCain -- flailing about for an economic policy -- has seemed bolder, or perhaps just noisier, on this front.”
“Nah, this is just more desperate flailing from a desperate clueless campaign.”
“Uliassutai Karakoram Blake shouted in English, flailing his arms out and thrusting his head a few inches from the face of the startled young Chinese.”
“All the otherwise fast people would either drown from laughing at me in the water, or would be too busy gossiping about the whatever a newbie triathelete is called flailing around on the swim, and then I'd smoke 'em on the bike, with enough cushion for the run.”
“Sharpe landed heavily, fell, and he came up with the sword flailing at the man he had wounded.”
“In one exchange, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) pressed BP on why it seemed to be "flailing" to deal with a spill only 2 percent as large as what it had said it could handle in its license application.”
The Washington Post: Oil spill investigators find critical problems in blowout preventer
“Grand Central publisher and executive vice president Jamie Raab said she liked to call him "The Professor" because Pockell knew so much about so many subjects and would become visibly animated in discussion, his hands "flailing" everywhere.”
The Huffington Post: Les Pockell Dead: Long-Time Editor And Anthologist Dies At 68
“Yes so that ` s-- and I was sort of the one kind of flailing in the back.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flailing’.
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movement (fast)
words describing fast action or movement
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rapt, hash house, harpies, freeborn, head shot, aerodrome, kibosh, boondocks, digress, gizmo, corkscrewing, combustibility and 44 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Good one! I call it finger-punching myself. :-) Oct 26, 2007
chained_bear Ha! Great word for it! Oct 26, 2007
skipvia At least in some circles, this refers to clicking your mouse repeatedly on an inactive or unresponsive button or link with the remote hope that it will do something. Oct 26, 2007