/flabby/

 

/flabby/

 

Adjective.

 

-) Pronunciation and accent: flæbɪ. 

 

-) Etymology: it is said to be a variant of FLAPPY.

 

-) Comparative form: flabbier. Superlative form: flabbiest.

 

-) It is dated from the end of 1600.

1. a. (Of a person or other animal) whose skin and muscles are unfirm; having flabbiness. b. (Of skin, flesh, etc.) lacking firmness; hanging loose; not stretched; yielding easily to the touch.

 

-) Synonyms for flabby: slack, relaxed, soft, unmuscled, flaccid, limp.

 

-) Antonyms of flabby: firm, hard.

 

-) Translation: flasque, in French; flácido, in Spanish; flaccido, in Italian.

His face was more solid than that of his associate; but the flesh was flabby, the cheeks seeming almost as pendulous and as ruddy as the comb of an old game cock.

Robert Williams… Maids of honour 1845

[…] I have known horses at their best whose muscles would feel soft and all but flabby, instead of being elastic and firm to the touch.

Harry Hieover… Stable talk 1846

At the door I put her against the wall and rubbed as well as I could my flabby cock between her cunt-lips.

Walter… My Secret Life 1888

Her flesh was as firm as ivory, her shoulders were big and square, her waist large, her breasts big solid globes, not flabby, tho they hung down, but big, solid lumps, and the whiteness of her flesh was dazzling.

Walter… My Secret Life 1888

We reject men who are fat, or thin and flabby, or whose nerves are shaky—we refer them back to training.

Herbert Wells... A Modern Utopia 1905

The abdominal muscles become flabbier and flabbier.

 

L. Bland, L. Doan… Sexology Uncensored 1998

2. Hence: (of a verbal work): weak, lacking effect.

 

Margaret gathered together these letters, and examined them. Three of them--very old, faded, and flabby--were directed to "Joseph Wilmot, care of the Governor of Norfolk Island," in a prim, clerk-like hand.

Elizabeth Braddon… Henry Dunbar 1864

-) Words derived from FLABBY: flabbily, flabbiness.