flobber

• Rhymes: -ɒbə(ɹ)

Perhaps a blend of flop +‎ wobble.

flobber (third-person singular simple present flobbers, present participle flobbering, simple past and past participle flobbered)

1. To sag and wobble.
   • 1887, Punch - Volumes 93-96, page 45:

     And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'!

   • 1957, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 230, page 74:

     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.

   • 1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80:

     My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans.

   • 1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of Colonel De Lancey, page 79:

     Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer.

   • 1978, James Thurber, Further fables for our time, page 2:

     And she began flobbering, almost imperceptibly, toward the scrubby brown growth beyond the sand and toward the sun.

   • 1990, Richard Francis, The Land where Lost Things Go by Olive Watson, page 227:

     They flobber as they walk with their fat damp flabby feet.

   • 1991, Wilbur Sanders, The Big Wolves, page 101:

     He flobbered and flumped all over chairs, and he talked endlessly in that rapid, insinuating, confidential marshmallow voice of his - so swift to compassion!

   • 2002, A. M. Jolly, Grumble Soup, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2006, Patricia Marks, The 'Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters, →ISBN, page 69:

     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.

   • 2012, Steve Turner, Amber Waves and Undertow, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2013 May 31, Charlotte Higgins, “Venice Biennale diary: dancing strippers and inflatable targets”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

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flobber (plural flobbers)

1. A pouting (Trisopterus luscus)