Flabby vs Quaggy - What's the difference?
flabby | quaggy |
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.
Resembling a quagmire; marshy, miry.
* 1818 , Asiatick Society, Asiatick Researches
* 1969 , Nandu Singh, S N Avdhut, Dayal Yoga
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 ,
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)- a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space
Antonyms
* (yielding to the touch) muscledSynonyms
* (having a slight lack of acidity) flatquaggy
English
Alternative forms
*quoggyAdjective
(er)- English oxen would be much distressed and frightened in such quaggy soil.
- Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness.
- 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.