Flabby

Definition: Flabby

Flabby

Adjective

1. Lacking firmness or stiffness; "flabby around the middle"; "flaccid cheeks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flabby" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Note: Flabby \Flab"by\, adjective. [See Flap.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Flabby

Softness

Yielding. Verb: flabby, limp, flimsy.

Crosswords: Flabby

It's not a pretty face, I grant you, but underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character (American in Paris, An; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner)

Look, just because my hair is turning grey, and I'm getting flabby, my eyesight and hearing have diminished, my metabolic rate has slowed down, and I'm no longer producing brain cells, doesn't mean I'm getting old. (Extreme Ghostbusters; writing credit: Brooks Wachtel)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Firming Up Your Flabby Faith (reference)

• Leben & [i.e. und] Traum mit Schellenfusz : Flabby Jacks fantast. Abenteuer (reference)

• The Doctor's Book of Home Remedies for Men: From Heart Disease and Headaches to Flabby Abs and Road Rage, over 2,000 Simple Solutions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Similarly, women with the syndrome think that they look fat and flabby, even though they are actually lean and muscular. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "flabby": become flabby ♦ fat and flabby. Additional references.

Beginning with "flabby": flabby-faced, flabby-skinned.

Albanian

i squllur (limp), i ligështuar (down-hearted, sapless, unstrung), i lëshuar (abandoned, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, lax, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), i butë (balmy, bland, Clement, cottony, creamy, delicate, doughy, downy, ductile, easygoing, facile, feathery, genial, gentle, lenient, limp, meek, mellow, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mushy, non-rigid, permissive, pillowy, placable, pulpy, quick, samel, silken, silky, soft, soft spoken, squashy, tame, temperate, tender, velvety, yielding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مترهل (flaccid, limp, loppy, washy), ‏لين (clemency, ductile, elastic, flabbiness, flaccid, flaccidity, flexible, gentleness, lax, laxity, lenience, leniency, limp, limpness, loose, make flexible, make soft, make tender, malleable, manageable, mellow, mildness, moderate, plastic, plasticize, pliable, pliant, resilient, soft, soften, supple, temper, tender, yielding), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏رخو (flaccid, lax, limp, loose, quaggy, slack, sluggish, soft). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабохарактерен (flaccid, frail, purposeless, weak, weak-kneed), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slow, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), отпуснат (enervate, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melodious, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), без енергия (flaccid). (various references)

Chinese 

軟弱 (feeble, weak), 松软. (various references)

Czech

tìstovitý (mealy, pasty), slabošský (effete, feckless), ochablý (soft), laxní (casual, dilatory, half hearted, lax, slack), bezvýrazný (blank, characterless, dead pan, glassy, inexpressive, insipid, noncommittal, tame, vapid). (various references)

Danish

flov (flatness), fad (course, dish, plate, platter). (various references)

Dutch

fustloos, slap (flat). (various references)

Finnish

vaatimaton (modest, simple, unassuming, unpretentious), ontto (empty, hollow), mauton (in bad taste, tasteless, unsavoury), köyhä (indigent, needy, poor). (various references)

French

mou (flaccid). (various references)

German

schlapp (floppy, lily livered, limp, limply, listless, nerveless, run down, shattered, washed out, worn out, yellow), schlaff (baggy, drooping, exhausted, flabbily, flaccid, flaccidly, floppily, floppy, lax, limp, limply, listless, loose, shattered, slack, slacky, soft, torpid, worn out). (various references)

Greek 

σαχλός (vapid), πλαδαρόσ (loose, pulpy, squashy), πλαδαρός (floppy), άτονος (atonic, sluggish). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"ול�"ל (hanging, loose, pending), רפוי (cure, healing, indemnity, limp, limping, loose, medication, relaxed, slack, therapy), רפ�" (feeble, flaccid, languid, lax, limp, limping, loose, slack, soft, weak), רכרוכי (softish, weak). (various references)

Hungarian

petyhüdt (drooping, droopy, flaccid, floppy, lax, limp, sloppy), ernyedt (flaccid, floppy, languid, lax, sloppy, swooned, swooning, to feel slack), gyenge (anaemic, anemic, crazy, decrepit, Dickey, dicky, dim, extenuate, faint, feckless, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, impotent, inferior, infirm, light, low, meagre, mild, nerveless, palsied, reedy, scrannel, semi-invalid, sickly, slack, slender, slight, small voice, soft, weak, weakly), elpuhult (delicate, effeminate, Pappy, self indulgent, sybaritic). (various references)

Indonesian

bonyok (soft, tainted). (various references)

Italian

molle (crummy, feeble, lax, soft, squashy, tender, tongs, weak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ぐうぐう寝ちゃう (accomplice, approximately, cohort, completely exhausted, dead tired, enervated, fast, fast asleep, firmly, flexible, hanging around, hesitatingly, indecisiveness, limp, lolling, more, much, noticeably, Okinawan fortress, pulpy, remarkably, senseless, sloppy, slowly, soft, soppy, sound asleep, sound of rinsing one's mouth, splat!, steadily, tardily, tired, to be unsteady, to fall sound asleep, to reel, to shake, to stray from the right path, turning round and round). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐにゃぐにゃ (flexible, limp, soft). (various references)

Korean 

흐믈흐믈한. (various references)

Manx

bog (callow, callow of youth, easy, limp, loose, loose of cough, moist, pulpy, slack, soft, soft-hearted, tender). (various references)

Norwegian

slapp (floppy, lax, limp), pløsete. (various references)

Pig Latin

abbyflay.(various references)

Portuguese

fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk-and-water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy-washy), flácido (limp, loppy, pappy, pithless, pulpy), mole (boneless, flaccid, floppy, limp, loppy, molluscous, mushy, pappy, pithless, pulpy, sleepy, sluggish, soapy, soft, spineless, spiritless, squashy, supine, tender, weak), lânguido (drowsy, languid, languishing, listless, wanton), chato (annoying, boring, even, flat, level, pokey, smooth). (various references)

Romanian

fleşcãit (flaccid), flasc (flaccid, lax, limp, soft), fãrã vlagã (amort, bloodless, flat, inert, languid, languidly, limp, limply), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), slãbit (effete, helpless, loose, low, queer, weakened), pleoştit (baggy, downcast, flattened), moleşit (drooping, drowsy, dull, enervate, flaccid, tired, weak), molatic (heavy, remiss, slow, spineless, weak), molâu (spineless, spiritless), moale (apathetic, apathetical, doughy, flexible, invertebrate, languid, languidly, lax, light, limp, limply, mellow, mild, milk and water, pillowy, pulpy, silky, slack, slacky, sloppy, smooth, soft, supine, tame, tender, thawy, velvety, weak, yielding), lãsãtor (indolent), inconsistent (flimsy, groundless, insubstantial, soft, unsubstantial), bleg (blockhead, dolt, drooping, flaccid, foolish, half hearted, remiss, sheepish, shy, silly, skulker, sloppy, sluggish, timid, weak, weakly). (various references)

Russian 

слабовольный (weak-kneed), вялый (apathetic, apathetical, dopey, dopy, drowsy, exanimate, flaccid, flat, indolent, inert, insipid, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lethargic, listless, remiss, saggy, sapless, slack, sluggish, spiritless, stolid, torpid), отвислый (flaccid, pendulous), дряблый (boggy, dozy, flaccid, quaggy, shrunken). (various references)

Scottish

slaman (any flabby substance, curdled milk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, trick, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), mlitav (lackadaisical, languorous, limp, listless, loose, remiss). (various references)

Spanish

fofo (soft), flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, sagging, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky), flaco (foible, gaunt, lean, meager, meagre, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, thin, weakly, weakness), flácido (flaccid, quaggy), fláccido (flaccid, limp), desvaído (gaunt). (various references)

Swedish

slapp (flaccid, flaggy, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, pithless, slack, wet), slak (flaccid, floppy, loose, slack). (various references)

Thai

ไม่มีเรี่ยวแรง. (various references)

Turkish

yumuşak (benignant, bland, ductile, easygoing, effeminate, flaccid, floppy, gentle, heartthrob, kid glove, kindly, lax, lenient, light, limp, malleable, mellow, mild, pulpy, smooth, soft, soft boiled, spongy, supple, tender, velvet, yielding), sarkık (bagging, baggy, beetle, drooping, droopy, flaccid, floppy, hanging, pendant, pendent, pensile, slouching, slouchy), iradesiz (feeble minded, flaccid, invertebrate, irresolute, non compos, non compos mentis, simple, spineless, volitionless, weak, weak-kneed, weak-minded), gevşek (airy, crank, drooping, flaccid, flagging, floppy, halfhearted, laidback, lax, limp, listless, loose, nonrigid, non-rigid, slack, slouching, slouchy, supine, unstuck), güçsüz (crank, doughy, feeble, helpless, impotent, ineffectual, powerless, sapless, shaky, sinewless, strengthless, weak). (various references)

Turkmen 

яepbeюik (overstuffed), myjjarmakс (become soft). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабохарактерний (fibreless, flaccid, pulpy, sappy), розпливчастий (blurred, deliquescent, indistinct, loose, nebulous), в'ялий (drowsy, flaccid, heavy-handed, listless, oscitant, phlegmatic, quaggy, sapless, sleepy, stagnant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

uỷ mị (flaccid, lackadaisical, maudlin, misty-eyed, mushy, soft), nhũn, mềm (cushiony, ductile, flaccid, limber, limp, loose, mushy, soft, supple, supply, yielding). (various references)

Welsh

lliprynnaidd (limp), llipa (limp). (various references)

flaccidus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Flabby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clabby, fabi, flaby, Flasby, Flaxby, flibi, Flimby, fluby, Fulletby, Glaby, plebby. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ably, baby, blab, flab, flay.

-3 letters: aby, alb, bal, bay, fay, fly, lab, lay.

-4 letters: ab, al, ay, ba, by, fa, la, ya.

+2 letters: flabbily.