Flabby vs Flaggy - What's the difference?
flabby | flaggy |
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.
(obsolete) Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
* 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
(obsolete) tasteless; insipid
* Francis Bacon
As adjectives the difference between flabby and flaggy
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 flaggy is (obsolete) hanging down; drooping, pendulous.flabby
English
Adjective
(er)- a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space
Antonyms
* (yielding to the touch) muscledSynonyms
* (having a slight lack of acidity) flatflaggy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His flaggy wings when forth he did display, / Were like two sayles, in which the hollow wynd / Is gathered full
- a flaggy apple