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flobber

flobber verb: to sag and wobble.

Verb

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

  1. To sag and wobble.
    • And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'!1887, Punch - Volumes 93-96, page 45
    • 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

Noun

flobber (plural flobbers)

  1. A pouting (Trisopterus luscus)

Examples of flobber in a sentence

  • 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:

Forms of flobber

Verb
third-person singular presentflobbers
present participleflobbering
past participleflobbered
pastflobbered
Noun
pluralflobbers

Origin of flobber

Perhaps a blend of flop + wobble.

Words that rhyme with flobber

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Questions about flobber

What does flobber mean?
Flobber means to sag and wobble.
How do you use flobber in a sentence?
My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans.
What part of speech is flobber?
Flobber can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of flobber?
The past tense of flobber is flobbered.

Words near flobber in the dictionary

  1. floatstone
  2. floatstones
  3. floaty
  4. flob
  5. flobbed
  6. flobber
  7. flobbered
  8. flobbergrast
  9. flobbergrasted
  10. flobbergrasting
  11. flobbergrasts

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