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flappable

flappable adjective: able to be moved by flapping.

Adjective (1)

flappable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be moved by flapping.
    • a flappable wing

Adjective (2)

flappable (comparative more flappable, superlative most flappable)

  1. (informal) Capable of becoming flustered or upset.
    • ‘Yes. Not as much as Ruth, but I read some myself afterward. You sound better aloud. Good deal of authentic mania, there, black and blue wit, pain—the fellow going on to fresh defeats, flappable, flappable. Surviving however. I bought a lot of the little I could understand. Do you write when you're...1973, John Berryman, Recovery, Macmillan, →ISBN

Forms of flappable

comparativemore flappable
superlativemost flappable

Origin of flappable

From flap + -able.

Back-formation from unflappable.

Questions about flappable

What does flappable mean?
Flappable means able to be moved by flapping.
What part of speech is flappable?
Flappable is an adjective.

Words near flappable in the dictionary

  1. flapjacky
  2. flapless
  3. flaplike
  4. flapling
  5. flaplings
  6. flappable
  7. flapped
  8. flapped off
  9. flapped one's gums
  10. flapped one's jaw
  11. flapped one's jaws

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