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flobber en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Perhaps a blend of flop + wobble.

Meanings

1. To sag and wobble.
   • Since it's inflatable, various artworld wags have been plotting how to shoot a dart into its side and watch it flobber down like a great big burst balloon. 2013 May 31, Charlotte Higgins, “Venice Biennale diary: dancing strippers and inflatable targets”, in The Guardian:
   • 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:
   • So we proceeded at chastened speed, the dust reduced enough that our headlights showed Ross's flattened tire as it flobbered joltingly around the rim. 2012, Steve Turner, Amber Waves and Undertow, →ISBN:
   • He flobbered and flumped all over chairs, and he talked endlessly in that rapid, insinuating, confidential marshmallow voice of his - so swift to compassion! 1991, Wilbur Sanders, The Big Wolves, page 101:
   • Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer. 1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of Colonel De Lancey, page 79:
   • 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:
   • And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'! 1887, Punch - Volumes 93-96, page 45:
   • I've never seen a blimp close-up. It bobbled. Slowly. It flobbered. It was a bit like a whale acting coy -- or one of the hippopotami in pink tutus in Fantasia. 2002, A. M. Jolly, Grumble Soup, →ISBN:
   • And when he had hooked a fine perch, and Miss BELL made a dash at the line, And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'S escape from a cuss cut it fine. 2006, Patricia Marks, The 'Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters, →ISBN, page 69:
   • 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:
   • My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans. 1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80:

Forms

flobber en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. A pouting (Trisopterus luscus)

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