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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flabby
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her body was getting old and flabby.
▪ John's flabby white thighs wobbled as he walked across the beach.
▪ She's gotten flabby since she stopped swimming.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because he is so flabby in his body I think.
▪ Feeling flabby after all that festive food?
▪ He has a big tummy and his arms all flabby and they quiver.
▪ He was neither pallid nor flabby, prison had not marked him in the ways she expected.
▪ It was that of a young man, tall but somewhat flabby muscled.
▪ Suddenly this flabby and overweight woman decided to do what younger and more athletic daredevils had shrunk from doing.
▪ When he took her hand in his, it was flabby, soft and tremulous.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
flabby

flabby \flab"by\ (fl[a^]b"b[y^]), a. [See Flap.] Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flabby

1690s, regarded as a softened variant of flappy, which is recorded in the sense of "softly fleshy" from 1590s; see flap (n.). Related: Flabbily; flabbiness.

Wiktionary
flabby

a. yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, ''flabby flesh''.

WordNet
flabby
  1. adj. lacking firmness or stiffness; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks" [syn: flaccid]

  2. [also: flabbiest, flabbier]

Usage examples of "flabby".

Charlotte Simmons gave off waves and waves of shiftlessness, incompetence, irresponsibility, sloth, flabby character, and the noxious funk of flesh abloom with heat, sweat, fear, and adrenaline.

She exposed one-half of her flabby, disgusting bosom, and there could be no doubt as to her false set of teeth.

When I think that I only touched two dangling flabby breasts, I feel as if I did not deserve to live!

Dismas said, and turned his back in disgust, The hierodule was still howling, his muscles straining against each other under his flabby skin.

The young male prostitute, hunched submissively, feels the condom-peel and then the blood and starts struggling like a condemned man, trying to get the condomless bleeding flabby old specimen out and off of him.

The ample visage of Inspector Hall looked flabby and liverish, showed no sort of pleasure at the sight of Mr.

He was a fat flabby creature, even for a Chtorran, with an annoying tendency for ruminative noises and questioning chirps.

He gave her that much but was mad with himself for going flabby enough to forget his schlemiel birthright.

Misha, too, praised him, but added that Slava was a flabby intellectual.

Its mouth, shaped into a perpetual underbite, was twenty-five centimeters wide and opened into its flabby, sack-like gullet.

She had considerably more meat on her bones than Whiny, but unfortunately most of it was flabby.

For instance I remember that once when going to bed, at the age of five or six, my nanny Eupraxia, a tall thin woman who wore a brown dress and a cap and had flabby skin under her chin, was undressing me and lifting me up to put me into my cot.

A Second Look by Marianna Heusler He watched her walking towards him, cocky and self-assured, her skirt hitched up way above her hefty thighs, her scarlet sweater outlining her ample curves as well as her flabby rolls, her makeup caked on her face, her lips slippery with colored Vaseline, her hair sprayed and gelled in some elaborate do.

He was wound up as tight as a spring, and I thought that any second he might pounce on Dusty Muleman, who was smaller and flabbier.

Those long webbed fingers, those sharp-pointed teeth filling a mouth that could stretch wide enough to swallow a muskmelon, the feet that slipped from sandals to reveal prehensile toes planned for strangling, that soft unresisting body absorbing the hardest blows like a feather pillow, and then falling in folds over a victim and clogging air passages like an obscene shroud of flabby fat.