floatie

Noun

floaty (plural floaties)

1. (informal) A particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid.
   • Why don't you stop slathering millions of things on your face, and lather up with my gentle Swan? It's the loveliest, pure, mild floatie—why, it'll get you clean as a baby!1945 September 24, “Memos to Mama from Baby and Swan [advertisement]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, volume 19, number 13, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42
2. (US, informal) A lilo (inflatable air mattress) or similar object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on.
   • I am going to begin with a confession that seems to me to be startling less for its content than for the sheer number of similar stories that I have heard related among so many of my successful women friends. Prevalent as it is, it always surfaces abruptly, bobbing awkwardly as a lone yellow...1998, Debra Shukles, “Weighing in as a Feminist”, in Rosamund Else-Mitchell, Naomi Flutter, editors, Talking Up: Young Women’s Take on Feminism, Melbourne, Vic.: Spinifex Press, →ISBN, page 71
3. (US, in plural, informal) Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”).
   • As an escaped megalodon swims close to a busy beach, we see humanity at its most chompable: chubby kids in floaties, doofuses on pontoons, some dork in a tight Speedo rolling around in one of those big inflatable Zorb balls. But alas, the movie is a gore-free PG-13, and though CGI has long since...2018 August 8, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2023

   Synonyms:

   armfloat, water wing, armband

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