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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

Meaning of "flabby" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLABBY

Alteration of flappy, from flap + -y1; compare Dutch flabbe drooping lip.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FLABBY

flabby  [ˈflæbɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLABBY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flabby is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FLABBY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

flabby

Body image

Body image refers to a person's feelings of the aesthetics and sexual attractiveness of their own body that may be forced by others or social media. The phrase body image was first coined by the Austrian neurologist and psychoanalyst Paul Schilder in his book The Image and Appearance of the Human Body. Human society has at all times placed great value on beauty of the human body, but a person's perception of their own body may not correspond to society's standards. The concept of body image is used in numerous disciplines, including psychology, medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural and feminist studies. The term is also often used in the media. Across these disciplines and media there is no consensus definition. A person's body image is thought to be, in part, a product of their personal experiences, personality, and various social and cultural forces. A person's sense of their own physical appearance, usually in relation to others or in relation to some cultural "ideal," can shape their body image. A person's perception of their appearance can be different from how others actually perceive them.

Definition of flabby in the English dictionary

The first definition of flabby in the dictionary is lacking firmness; loose or yielding. Other definition of flabby is having flabby flesh, esp through being overweight. Flabby is also lacking vitality; weak; ineffectual.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLABBY


Abbe
ˈæbɪ
abbey
ˈæbɪ
blabby
ˈblæbɪ
cabbie
ˈkæbɪ
crabby
ˈkræbɪ
drabby
ˈdræbɪ
gabby
ˈɡæbɪ
grabby
ˈɡræbɪ
Newtownabbey
ˌnjuːtənˈæbɪ
scabby
ˈskæbɪ
shabby
ˈʃæbɪ
slabby
ˈslæbɪ
tabby
ˈtæbɪ
tabi
ˈtæbɪ
yabbie
ˈjæbɪ
yabby
ˈjæbɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLABBY

flab
flabbergast
flabbergasted
flabbier
flabbiest
flabbily
flabbiness
flabella
flabellate
flabellation
flabelliform
flabellum
flaccid
flaccidity
flaccidly
flaccidness
flack
flacker
flackery
flacket

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLABBY

bobby
chubby
cobby
cubby
debby
dobby
gobby
grubby
hobby
hubby
Libby
lobby
mobby
nobby
rubby
squabby
stubby
swabby
tubby
webby

Synonyms and antonyms of flabby in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FLABBY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «flabby» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of flabby

Translation of «flabby» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLABBY

Find out the translation of flabby to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of flabby from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flabby» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

松弛的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fofo
570 millions of speakers

English

flabby
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पिलपिला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُتَرَهِّل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дряблый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

flácido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নীরসভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mou
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gembira
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schwabbelig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

たるんだ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

축 늘어진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhẽo nhèo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

flabbily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिडखोरपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gevşekçe
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

flaccido
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sflaczały
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

обвислий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

flasc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πλαδαρός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slapp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slapp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flabby

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLABBY»

The term «flabby» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.610 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flabby

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5 QUOTES WITH «FLABBY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word flabby.
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Mark Barrowcliffe
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.
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Jack LaLanne
Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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Alan Jay Lerner
It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Oscar Levant
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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Nadine Velazquez
Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLABBY»

Discover the use of flabby in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flabby and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Firming Up Your Flabby Faith
This guide will help you discover areas of your life that need shaping up and comes with a journaling section to help you begin the daily disciplines of reading, applying, and memorizing God's Word.
Vicki Lake, 1990
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Flabby Tabby
With engaging illustrations, entertaining stories and new words to learn, these books are perfect for young readers to read on their own.
Penny McKinlay, 2014
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Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog
Out-of-shape Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog, whose activities are limited to eating, drinking, and sleeping, finally slim down after embarking on an around-the-world search for the elusive Cunning Tiger and Wild Wolf.
Jeanne Willis, 2010
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Business Communication: Process and Product
Your writing will be more concise if you eliminate flabby expressions, drop unnecessary introductory words, get rid of ... As one expert copyeditor observed, “ Trim sentences, like trim bodies, usually require far more effort than flabby Why is  ...
Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy, 2010
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A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender
Chapter. Thirteen. The. "Flabby. American,". the. Body,. and. the. Cold. War. Robert. L. Griswold. John F. Kennedy's "The Soft American," which appeared in the December 26, 1960, issue of Sports Illustrated, began the president-elect's ...
Laura McCall, Donald Yacovone, 1998
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Geometric and Algebraic Topological Methods in Quantum Mechanics
A sheaf S on a topological space X is called flabby (or flasque in the terminology of [414]), if the restriction morphism S(X) -> S(U) is an epi- morphism for any open U C X, i.e., if any local section of the sheaf S can be extended to a global ...
G. Giachetta, L. Mangiarotti, G. A. Sardanashvili, 2005
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Sheaf Theory
Proposition. Let L be a principal ideal domain. If <d is a flabby sheaf of L-modules on X and <M is a locally constant sheaf of L-modules on X with finitely generated stalks and with cd *l ^ = 0, then id <g>£ <M is flabby. Proof. Since flabbiness is ...
Glen E. Bredon, 1997
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Algebraic Geometry II
In case of sheaves and their global sections, a "nice" resolution consisted of flabby sheaves. In the general case, we employ injective or other suitable objects of A, depending of the functor T. This procedure is used to define the functors Ext  ...
Игорь Ростиславович Шафаревич, 1996
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Several Complex Variables with Connections to Algebraic ...
Thus, sections of M over U extend to sections of E over X. This proves injective sheaves are flabby. Now suppose that £ is a flabby sheaf and 0 — C —^ M i , M - — * 0 is an exact sequence of sheaves of T£-modules. We wish to prove that ...
Joseph L. Taylor
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Quantification in Nonclassical Logic
Definition 3.10.14 A KFE with a set of possible worlds W is called flabby if the measure of existence of every its individual is W . So, a KFE is flabby iff it has a constant domain. Now let us describe flabby Kripke sheaves corresponding to flabby ...
Dov M. Gabbay, Dimitrij Skvortsov, Valentin Shehtman, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLABBY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flabby is used in the context of the following news items.
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Kangana Ranaut, Sunny Deol in a still from I Love NY.
He is not afraid to show his flabby belly and that's a big thing to achieve as mainstream filmmakers for Radhika-Vinay. You see, this willingness ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
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How to get your beach body the right way
You'll never see a sprinter with a flabby butt because their gluteal muscles are engaged with every powerful stride, making them exceptionally ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
3
WildTale Coastal Grill: Comfort seafood in Vancouver, done right
... muscular monsters may be a terrific aquaculture product, but they remind me of a stereotypical Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon – flabby, ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
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For your consideration: Trim your words
In fact, these sentences are not as trim and clean as they could be. They're flabby — laden with a few extra folds of fat. What could we cut? «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
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Nina In New York: The Fountain Of Youth Never Felt So Far Away
Flabby tummies that, with intense diet and exercise, don't really get less flabby but rather just sort of rearrange the cellulite pattern. Cellulite! «CBS Local, Jul 15»
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Bandbell puts welcome, wobbly spin on traditional weightlifting …
In that exercise, of course, the parts doing the shaking weren't my arms but rather my legs and flabby middle. Instantly, I knew what I had on my ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
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Cristiano Ronaldo makes possibly the most awkward TV …
... touched by strangers so - to make things less awkward - a presenter then shows off his flabby belly, laughing hysterically all the while. «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Summer Budget: Osborne's £60bn gamble
It's not clear why Osborne is confident of this, other than that he may be viewing the sector as a bit flabby and ripe for reform and efficiencies. «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
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How to Cook the Perfect Buffalo Wings
They're delicious, but turn flabby and disappointing far more quickly than the plain variety, especially when doused in hot buttery sauce. «NDTV, Jul 15»
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American Corporations Are Getting Flabby. They Need More …
In a perfectly competitive world, firms ought to exploit [...] cheap borrowing costs to add profitable new capacity and products, until all the added ... «Mother Jones, Jul 15»

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