flobber

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verb

To sag and wobble.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

flobber1

verbflobber (third-person singular simple present flobbers, present participle flobbering, simple past and past participle flobbered)

present singular third person flobbers · participle present flobbering · participle past flobbered · past flobbered

  1. To sag and wobble.

    And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'!

    1887, Punch - Volumes 93-96, page 45
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    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 74

    My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans.

    1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80

    Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer.

    1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of Colonel De Lancey, page 79

    And 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 2

    They 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

nounflobber (plural flobbers)

plural flobbers

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