Flabby vs Blabby - What's the difference?
flabby | blabby |
Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh .
* {{quote-journal
, date = 1867-12-28
, title = External Manual Pressure during Labour
, first = John
, last = Wades
, journal = The British Medical Journal
, volume = 2
, page = 601
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=RxRAAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA601&dq=flabby
, passage = 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.
}}
(of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
overwrought.
As adjectives the difference between flabby and blabby
is that flabby is yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh while blabby is tending to blab or gossip a lot.flabby
English
Adjective
(er)- a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space