hanging loosely or limply, as flesh or muscles; flaccid.
2.
having such flesh.
3.
lacking strength or determination.
Origin
1690-1700; apparently expressive alteration of earlier flappy, with same sense; see flap, -y1; compare late Middle Englishflabband (attested once), evidently with sense “flapping”
Related forms
flabbily, adverb
flabbiness, noun
Examples from the web for flabby
They tend to lack a swim bladder, however, and they have weak bones and flabby muscles.
Palpation shows loss of deep fascia or muscle substance, or soft flabby muscles in wound area.
As their fat is depleted, the humps become floppy and flabby.
Cropping can avoid showing certain parts of your body, such as a flabby stomach or blemishes.
On the bright side, your flabby willpower means open weight machines for other gym members.
Untempered chocolate will be flabby and rubbery, refusing to snap when you break it.
Nothing bounces around, so the sound stays tight and never gets flabby.
The firm, in its third generation of family ownership, has grown flabby.
The notion of escape from a flabby land in search of keener sensations, including fear, is old.
Americans shelled out tens of millions of dollars last year on various devices to firm up their flabby midriffs.
British Dictionary definitions for flabby
flabby
/ˈflæbɪ/
adjective -bier, -biest
1.
lacking firmness; loose or yielding: flabby muscles
2.
having flabby flesh, esp through being overweight
3.
lacking vitality; weak; ineffectual
Derived Forms
flabbily, adverb flabbiness, noun
Word Origin
C17: alteration of flappy, from flap + -y1; compare Dutch flabbe drooping lip
Word Origin and History for flabby
adj.
1690s, variant of flappy, which is recorded in the sense of "softly fleshy" from 1590s; see flap. Related: Flabbily; flabbiness.