Definitions
Soft, loose, and lacking firmness or strength.
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“My attention was accidentally drawn to this aid, some five or six years ago, while attending a lady (multipara) in her confinement, who suffered from umbilical hernia, with large flabby abdomen.”
“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.”
“The strings of some violins when up to pitch are loose and flabby; some are very taut and hard.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Soft and slack”6 letters
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