# flabby

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈflæb.i/ · frequency rank #41,125

## Definitions
1. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
2. Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
3. overwrought.
4. Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.

## Etymology
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 German flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), Danish flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), Swedish flabb, fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), German Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”).

## Easily confused with
- **flaky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flabby-vs-flaky)
- **flashy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flabby-vs-flashy)
- **flatly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flabby-vs-flatly)
- **flappy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/flabby-vs-flappy)

## Common misspellings (8)
`falbby`, `fflabby`, `flabbyy`, `flaby`, `flabyb`, `flbaby`, `fllabby`, `lfabby`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/flabby