flab

[flab] Origin

flab

[flab]
noun
1.
flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
2.
the condition of being flabby: Most of the new recruits had run to flab in civilian life.

Origin:
1920–25; back formation from flabby
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Flab is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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flab (flæb)
 
n
unsightly or unwanted fat on the body; flabbiness
 
[C20: back formation from flabby]

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flab
1923, back-formation from flabby.
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