flabby
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- adjective
- /ˈflæbi/
:
flácido
- Her arms were spread like flabby wings, and her skin was pale and doughy-looking, bunched beneath her swimsuit.
Why does it have to become this weak, pale, flabby, vulnerable thing that is the child?
- Why does it have to become this weak, pale, flabby, vulnerable thing that is the child?
- You accept the morning farting and you feel comfortable showing your flabby tummy mostly comfortable.
- Like I'm training so hard and I'm I feel like flabby.
- So I have the flabby armed, dimply legged fat body I have.
- And, you know, there are times a little leaner sometimes, you know, a little flabby, but overall, it's always the same.
Examples
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I soap his smooth chest, and the movement of my hand pulls the flabby skin down over his ribs.
Fiction book (1993) -
I know you think my arms are flabby.
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And big, flabby grandma arms.
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You just look like smaller but flabbier, if that makes sense.
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Fat to thin, unhealthy to healthy, flabby to fit.
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I opened my eyes and looked into the face of a pallid, flabby man of fifty-two.
Fiction book (1997) -
And you do have a flabby tummy, so we'll need to spend some time strengthening your diaphragm.
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His mother's belly is flabby, with curving wrinkles as well.
Fiction book (2000) -
He's a tall, avuncular man with a flabby belly and Arrow shirts: an accountant.
Fiction book (1995) -
After weeks of inactivity, his arms became flabby and weak.
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Etymology
Flabby probably comes from an older word flab meaning 'loose' and it sounds like the simple word 'flap'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine soft skin or muscle that can 'flap' when you move, and that's why flabby means soft, loose, and lacking firmness.