Meanings
flobber1
present singular third person flobbers · participle present flobbering · participle past flobbered · past flobbered
- To sag and wobble.
And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'!
1887, Punch - Volumes 93-96, page 455 more examples
The aide raised a fast-clenched fist to his mouth, flobbered his throat muscles in a horrible spasm of crimson-faced control, repressed his cough silently and looked briefly toward heaven.
1957, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 230, page 74My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans.
1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer.
1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of Colonel De Lancey, page 79And she began flobbering, almost imperceptibly, toward the scrubby brown growth beyond the sand and toward the sun.
1978, James Thurber, Further fables for our time, page 2They flobber as they walk with their fat damp flabby feet.
1990, Richard Francis, The Land where Lost Things Go by Olive Watson, page 227
flobber2
Origin
Perhaps a blend of flop + wobble.
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flobber. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flobber
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