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Floppy vs Floopy - What's the difference?

floppy | floopy |

As adjectives the difference between floppy and floopy

is that floppy is limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible while floopy is .

As a noun floppy

is (computing) a floppy disk.

floppy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
  • * 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 3,
    • The smile, the white collar worn with a dark shirt, the floppy breast-pocket handkerchief would surely be famous when the chaps in the rows behind were mere forgotten grins and frowns.

    Derived terms

    * floppy disk, floppy disc

    Noun

    (floppies)
  • (computing) A floppy disk

    • Synonyms

    * diskette

    Derived terms

    * mini-floppy * micro-floppy

    floopy

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * 1992 , Mike Lesser, The global dynamics of cellular automata , Addison-Wesley, page 75
    • To run: insert the floopy disk into a drive, or save onto hard disk;