different between curvy vs flabby

English

Etymology

From curve +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?vi/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??vi/

Adjective

curvy (comparative curvier, superlative curviest)

1. Having curves.
   • 2015, dehyun sohn, Hee-Jung Jang, Timothy Jung, Go Slow and Curvy: Understanding the Philosophy of the Cittaslow slowcity Phenomenon, Springer (?ISBN), page 5:

     A city is entangled in straight lines, while nature is curvy. Fast is straight, but slow is curvy and patient.

2. Buxom or curvaceous.
   • 2013, Ava Catori, The Big, Not-So-Small, Curvy Girls Dating Agency, Ava Catori Books

     He tried to shift his focus back to Jessica and their wedding, but the soft, curvy blonde he'd met recently was stealing more and more of his attention.

3. (euphemistic, of women) Overweight.

Synonyms

• (having curves): curved, sinuous, tortuous, wavy
• (buxom): Rubenesque, zaftig; see also Thesaurus:voluptuous

Derived terms

• curviness

Translations

Spanish

Adjective

curvy (invariable)

1. curvy

English

Etymology

From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“flabby”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), Middle Low German flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), Danish flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), Swedish flabb, fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), German Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæb.i/
• Rhymes: -æbi

Adjective

flabby (comparative flabbier, superlative flabbiest)

1. Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
2. (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
3. (of writing, etc.) overwrought.
4. (mathematics) Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.

   a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space

Synonyms

• (having a slight lack of acidity): flat

Antonyms

• (yielding to the touch): muscled, taut

Translations