flabby
- Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
- Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
- (usually) overwrought.
- Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈflæb.i/
Etymology
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”).
loose-hanging
become limp
become soft
flaggy
not hard
flasque
flaccido
flácido
gevşek
slap
fofo
schlaff
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