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Definition of Flabbier
1. flabby [adj] - See also: flabby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flabbier
Literary usage of Flabbier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"Will our mathematicians become 'flabbier and flabbier'? A. HALL. October 10, 1904.
SPECIAL ARTICLES. WHAT IS AN ELECTRIC CURRENT? ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1898)
"away, the muscles remain flabbier, yet he can perform every movement, ...
The muscles of the right arm are still flabbier than those of the left, ..."
3. Selected Articles on the Study of Latin and Greek by Lamar Taney Beman (1921)
"... notions have supplanted the elder at schools which fit boys for college, those
boys prove, when they get to college, flabbier and flabbier in mind. ..."
4. American University Progress and College Reform Relative to School and Society by James Hutchins Baker (1916)
"Boys entering college are " flabbier and flabbier." Easy methods do not result
in the best education; agreeableness is not a universal test of value. ..."
5. Problems of the Elementary School by Arthur Cecil Perry (1910)
"... flabbier and flabbier in mind," and he illustrates with the story of the
Harvard sophomore whom he advised to "take in hand some hard and 1 Barrett ..."
6. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1856)
"... the muscles become flabbier and flabbier, the skin more pallid, often cold to
the touch, or drier, and throwing off dirty furfuraceous scales. ..."
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