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Definition of Floppier
1. floppy [adj] - See also: floppy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floppier
Literary usage of Floppier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"... a little earlier in bloom and a trifle floppier in habit, with fewer laxer
branches, which may here and there be seen in the high and stony fine turf ..."
2. English Grammar, on the Productive System: A Method of Instruction Recently by Roswell Chamberlain Smith (1849)
"... the superlative is formed by adding the adverb mart to the end of them j as,
nethermost, uttermost, uppermost. admit of er and est; as, floppier, ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1839)
"somewhat similar to what I have done from the Dublin hospital, that his practice
has been attended, not only with equal, but floppier success, he should be ..."
4. Exemplary Novels by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra (1822)
"... that " those who possess nothing, are in many respects much floppier than
those who are very rich." The oor humble contented man, may, in time, ..."
5. English Grammar for Common Schools by Robert Comfort Metcalf, Thomas Metcalf (1894)
"... then a comma usually serves between the members; as, The land is everywhere
richly cultivated, and a floppier peasantry nowhere exists. ..."
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