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Flabby vs Quaggy - What's the difference?

flabby | quaggy |

As an adjective flabby

is yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh .

As a proper noun quaggy is

a short river that passes through the.

flabby

English

Adjective

(er)
  • 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.
  • a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space

    Antonyms

    * (yielding to the touch) muscled

    Synonyms

    * (having a slight lack of acidity) flat

    quaggy

    English

    Alternative forms

    *quoggy

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
  • * 1818 , Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches
  • English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.
  • * 1969 , Nandu Singh, S N Avdhut, Dayal Yoga
  • Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness.
  • Soft or flabby (of a person etc.).
  • *1748 , Samuel Richardson, Clarissa :
  • *:Behold her then, spreading the whole troubled bed with her huge quaggy carcase: Her mill-post arms held up; her broad hands clenched with violence [...].
  • *1851 ,
  • In truth, a mature man who uses hairoil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can’t amount to much in his totality.