LekhoriLekhoriYielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
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.
Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
A flabby wine might be described as a wine in which nothing stands out.
overwrought.
As you revise, focus on eliminating flabby expressions. This takes conscious effort. As one expert copyeditor observed, “Trim sentences, like trim bodies, usually require far more effort than flabby ones.
From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“flabby”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), Middle Low...
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