"flabby" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈflæb.i/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-flabby.wav [Southern-England] Forms: flabbier [comparative], flabbiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -æbi 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”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|flappy}} flappy, {{m|en|flap||to hang loose}} flap (“to hang loose”), {{m|en|flapsy||flabby}} flapsy (“flabby”), {{m|dum|flabbe||a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue}} flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), {{m|gml|flabbe||a gaping mouth; a chatterbox}} flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), {{m|da|flab||the jaw; cheeks; a malapert}} flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), {{m|sv|flabb}} flabb, {{m|sv|fläff||the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller}} fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), {{m|de|Flabbe||a gob; muzzle}} Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”) Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} flabby (comparative flabbier, superlative flabbiest)
  1. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid. Categories (topical): Wine Translations (yielding to the touch): πλαδαρός (pladarós) (Ancient Greek), مُتَرَهِّل (mutarahhil) (Arabic), мек (mek) (Bulgarian), отпуснат (otpusnat) (Bulgarian), fofo (Catalan), flàccid [masculine] (Catalan), povadlý (Czech), ochablý (Czech), povislý (Czech), slap (Danish), slatten (Danish), slap (Dutch), flabberig (Dutch), lõtv (Estonian), veltto (Finnish), vetelä (Finnish), flasque (French), ramolli (French), balofo [masculine] (Galician), oupado [masculine] (Galician), gorolizo [masculine] (Galician), foufeiro [masculine] (Galician), furrico [masculine] (Galician), fole [masculine] (Galician), schlabberig [Northern, regional] (German), wabbelig (German), schwabbelig (German), quabbelig [Northern, regional] (German), petyhüdt (Hungarian), ernyedt (Hungarian), lembek (Indonesian), feolmhar (Irish), liobarnach (Irish), flaccido (Italian), moscio (Italian), flaccus (Latin), ļumīgs [masculine] (Latvian), сви́снат (svísnat) (Macedonian), мли́тав (mlítav) (Macedonian), мек (mek) (Macedonian), ngehe (Maori), ngehengehe (Maori), kōwariwari (Maori), pīpī (Maori), kūreherehe (Maori), ngohungohu (Maori), slaskete (Norwegian Bokmål), گوشك (gevşek) (Ottoman Turkish), سست (sost) (Persian), شل (šol) (Persian), schlaup (Plautdietsch), flácido (Portuguese), дряблый (drjablyj) (Russian), flácido (Spanish), fofo (Spanish), lacio (Spanish), biyé (Sundanese), slapp (Swedish), sladdrig (Swedish), llibin (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-flabby-en-adj-kxJuOw8Q Disambiguation of Wine: 39 46 0 14 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 4 1 22 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 55 7 1 36 Disambiguation of 'yielding to the touch': 92 2 0 6
  2. (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness. Categories (topical): Wine Synonyms (having a slight lack of acidity): flat Translations (wine: having a lack of acidity): slap (Dutch)
    Sense id: en-flabby-en-adj-Ar~RBUvD Disambiguation of Wine: 39 46 0 14 Disambiguation of 'having a slight lack of acidity': 3 96 0 1 Disambiguation of 'wine: having a lack of acidity': 7 90 1 3
  3. (of writing, etc.) overwrought. Tags: usually
    Sense id: en-flabby-en-adj-ogyZQKM1
  4. (mathematics) Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain. Categories (topical): Mathematics, Wine
    Sense id: en-flabby-en-adj--~GHTbqp Disambiguation of Wine: 39 46 0 14 Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: flab, flabbily, flabbiness

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for flabby meaning in English (14.5kB)

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          "word": "дряблый"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "yielding to the touch",
      "word": "sladdrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "yielding to the touch",
      "word": "llibin"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "wine: having a lack of acidity",
      "word": "slap"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flabby"
}

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