different between flabby vs puffed

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ft/

Etymology 1

puff +? -ed

Verb

puffed

1. simple past tense and past participle of puff

Adjective

puffed (comparative more puffed, superlative most puffed)

1. Inflated or swollen.
2. Consisting of a puff. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. Gathered up into rounded ridges.

   The dress had puffed sleeves.

4. (of cereals) Expanded by the use of steam.

Etymology 2

Shortened from puffed out.

Adjective

puffed (comparative more puffed, superlative most puffed)

1. (informal) Synonym of puffed out (panting from exercise)

Anagrams

• depuff