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flappy

[ flap-ee ]

adjective

, flap·pi·er, flap·pi·est.
  1. slack or loose, so as to flap readily.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flappy1

1900–05; flap + -y 1; probably re-formation and not continuous with obsolete flappy flabby

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Example Sentences

However, most men wear this piece of garment under their flappy shorts.

When it’s warm out, they just whip their tops right off and prance along in nothing more than their tiny little flappy shorts.

It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.

“I can call Flappy Bird is a success of mine,” tweeted Nguyen, shortly after announcing he was taking the game down.

Likewise, there may always be conspiracy theories about the “death” of Flappy Bird, too.

Flappy Bird had hit the big time—then disappeared just as fast.

Flappy Bird, though, ripped a corporate aesthetic and made it punk, in a way.

But always before when she had seen him the great hound, with his flappy ears and wide mouth, had been chained.

She turned her eyes from his and stroked the flappy white ears of Charles.

He was a bald-browed, white-haired, white-whiskered old clergyman, of a flappy and floppy type.

Oh, look at that ducky little church and the women with flappy cappy things on their heads.'

There are fowls too in various coops—flappy and agitated these.

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