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Floppy vs Noodly - What's the difference?

floppy | noodly |

As adjectives the difference between floppy and noodly

is that floppy is limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible while noodly is of or pertaining to noodles.

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

    noodly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to noodles
  • (music) loopy, containg intertwined loops
  • * {{quote-news, year=1998, date=January 16, author=John Corbett, title=Cradle of Electronica, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=He felt the pangs intensifying, as if the noodly , repetitive sounds were some lost language he'd known but forgotten, a dialect discarded or repressed. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2002, date=May 17, author=Peter Margasak, title=Cornershop, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Both of those albums contained lots of what's charitably called filler--in the form of noodly hip-hop-inspired loops that never went anywhere--and it took the band five years to release the new Handcream for a Generation (Wiija/Beggars Banquet). }}
  • floppy, droopy
  • * {{quote-news, year=2006, date=May 12, author=Liz Armstrong, Heather Kenny, title=Big Imagination, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=A lot of her clothes move strangely: one dress has an exaggerated, uneven bustle, upon which is layered a long skirt made of elastic, resulting in a motion that Glaum-Lathbury describes as "wiggly and noodly ." }}