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Synonyms for flabby
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : flab-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈflæb i |
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Définition of flabby
Origin :- 1690s, variant of flappy, which is recorded in the sense of "softly fleshy" from 1590s; see flap. Related: Flabbily; flabbiness.
- adj baggy, fat
- You might have kicked her, no matter where, she did not feel kicks for she had become too fat and flabby.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- Her eyes, in the centre of her flabby and grimacing face, were of celestial beauty.
- Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
- If purchased ready boiled, try whether their tails are stiff, and pull up with a spring; otherwise that part will be flabby.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- He was carrying a heavy hunting-crop and his flabby face was livid.
- Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
- His eyes that saw nothing were bent upon Gregory's pale, flabby face.
- Extract from : « The Tavern Knight » by Rafael Sabatini
- This holds a flabby skin in shape and lends strength to a frail one.
- Extract from : « Taxidermy » by Leon Luther Pray
- It is something that is probably better than the soft and flabby Golden Age.
- Extract from : « They Twinkled Like Jewels » by Philip Jos Farmer
- That flabby, burly man, happy and besotted, was his own father!
- Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. » by Guy de Maupassant
- He felt weak and flabby and there was a strange chill at the pit of his stomach.
- Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx
- The spawning fish, flabby and useless, are killed in winter.
- Extract from : « Angling Sketches » by Andrew Lang
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