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"ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 210:",
"text": "A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.",
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"ref": "2008, Kevin Cameron, Sportbike Performance Handbook, →ISBN, page 135:",
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"word": "flabbily"
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"ref": "1867 December 28, John Wades, “External Manual Pressure during Labour”, in The British Medical Journal, volume 2, page 601:",
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"ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 210:",
"text": "A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.",
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"ref": "1961, The Violin Makers' Journal - Volume 5, page 71:",
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{
"ref": "2008, Kevin Cameron, Sportbike Performance Handbook, →ISBN, page 135:",
"text": "Chassis of 1950s-1970s bikes are flabby tubular structures, often weak to the point of lacking straight-line stability!",
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"Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid."
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"ref": "1996, Emile Peynaud, Jacques Blouin, The Taste of Wine: The Art Science of Wine Appreciation, →ISBN, page 229:",
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"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Thomas Pellechia, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Winery, →ISBN, page 103:",
"text": "An extremely hot region will give you flabby wine.",
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"Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness."
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"(of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness."
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"ref": "2014, Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy, Business Communication: Process and Product, →ISBN, page 178:",
"text": "As you revise, focus on eliminating flabby expressions. This takes conscious effort. As one expert copyeditor observed, “Trim sentences, like trim bodies, usually require far more effort than flabby ones.",
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"overwrought."
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"(of writing, etc.) overwrought."
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"text": "a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space"
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"sense": "having a slight lack of acidity",
"word": "flat"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "mutarahhil",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "مُتَرَهِّل"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "mek",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "мек"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otpusnat",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "отпуснат"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "fofo"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "povadlý"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "ochablý"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "povislý"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "slap"
},
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "slatten"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "slap"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "flabberig"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "lõtv"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "veltto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "vetelä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "flasque"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "ramolli"
},
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "balofo"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "oupado"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gorolizo"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "foufeiro"
},
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "furrico"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fole"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"regional"
],
"word": "schlabberig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "wabbelig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "schwabbelig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"regional"
],
"word": "quabbelig"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "pladarós",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "πλαδαρός"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "petyhüdt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "ernyedt"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "lembek"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "feolmhar"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "liobarnach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "flaccido"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "moscio"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "flaccus"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ļumīgs"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "svísnat",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "сви́снат"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mlítav",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "мли́тав"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "mek",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "мек"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "ngehe"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "ngehengehe"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "kōwariwari"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "pīpī"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "kūreherehe"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "ngohungohu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "kōwariwari"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "slaskete"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "gevşek",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "گوشك"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "sost",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "سست"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "šol",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "شل"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "schlaup"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "flácido"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "drjablyj",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "дряблый"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "flácido"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "fofo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "lacio"
},
{
"code": "su",
"lang": "Sundanese",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "biyé"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "yielding to the touch",
"word": "slapp"
},
{
"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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