Meanings
comparative flappier · superlative flappiest
- that flaps
Two adorable fashion boys eagerly welcomed us, one in a schoolboy outfit and the other floating around in a flappy white smock-cape.
2009 July 23, Mike Albo, “A Neighborhood for Aspirations”, in New York Times1 more example
The whole time we walked to the beach, Dorothy kept yanking at the flappy little skirt covering her bottom. I looked away from the poverty of her flesh, from the weave of veins that crossed her skin.
2008, Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water
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flappy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flappy
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