flabby

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• /ˈflæb.i/
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• CMU ARPABET: F L AE1 B IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُتَرَهِّل (mutarahhil) — yielding to the touch
• Bulgarian: мек (mek) — yielding to the touch
• Bulgarian: отпуснат (otpusnat) — yielding to the touch
• Catalan: fofo — yielding to the touch
• Catalan: flàccid — yielding to the touch
• Czech: povadlý — yielding to the touch
• Czech: ochablý — yielding to the touch
• Czech: povislý — yielding to the touch
• Danish: slap — yielding to the touch
• Danish: slatten — yielding to the touch
• Dutch: slap — yielding to the touch
• Dutch: flabberig — yielding to the touch
• Estonian: lõtv — yielding to the touch
• Finnish: veltto — yielding to the touch
• Finnish: vetelä — yielding to the touch
• French: flasque — yielding to the touch
• French: ramolli — yielding to the touch
• Galician: balofo — yielding to the touch
• Galician: oupado — yielding to the touch
• Galician: gorolizo — yielding to the touch
• Galician: foufeiro — yielding to the touch
• Galician: furrico — yielding to the touch
• Galician: fole — yielding to the touch
• German: schlabberig — yielding to the touch
• German: wabbelig — yielding to the touch
• German: schwabbelig — yielding to the touch
• German: quabbelig — yielding to the touch
• Ancient Greek: πλαδαρός (pladarós) — yielding to the touch
• Hindi: गुदगुदा (gudgudā) — yielding to the touch
• Hungarian: petyhüdt — yielding to the touch
• Hungarian: ernyedt — yielding to the touch
• Indonesian: lembek — yielding to the touch
• Irish: feolmhar — yielding to the touch
• Irish: liobarnach — yielding to the touch
• Italian: flaccido — yielding to the touch
• Italian: moscio — yielding to the touch
• Latin: flaccus — yielding to the touch
• Latvian: ļumīgs — yielding to the touch
• Macedonian: сви́снат (svísnat) — yielding to the touch
• Macedonian: мли́тав (mlítav) — yielding to the touch
• Macedonian: мек (mek) — yielding to the touch
• Māori: ngehe — yielding to the touch
• Māori: ngehengehe — yielding to the touch
• Māori: kōwariwari — yielding to the touch
• Māori: pīpī — yielding to the touch
• Māori: kūreherehe — yielding to the touch
• Māori: ngohungohu — yielding to the touch
• Norwegian Bokmål: slaskete — yielding to the touch
• Persian: سست (sost) — yielding to the touch
• Persian: شل (šol) — yielding to the touch
• Plautdietsch: schlaup — yielding to the touch
• Portuguese: flácido — yielding to the touch
• Russian: дряблый (drjablyj) — yielding to the touch
• Spanish: fofo — yielding to the touch
• Spanish: lacio — yielding to the touch
• Spanish: bofo — yielding to the touch
• Sundanese: biyé — yielding to the touch
• Swedish: slapp — yielding to the touch
• Swedish: sladdrig — yielding to the touch
• Welsh: llibin — yielding to the touch
• Dutch: slap — wine: having a lack of acidity
• German: flach — wine: having a lack of acidity