Flobby vs Flabby - What's the difference?
flobby | flabby |
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 flobby and flabby
is that flobby is full of saliva while flabby is yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh .flabby
English
Adjective
(er)- a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space