flobber
noun1
A pouting (Trisopterus luscus)
flobber
verbEtymology Perhaps a blend of flop + wobble.
1
To sag and wobble.
- And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'!1887, Punch - Volumes 93-96, page 45:
- 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.1957, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 230, page 74:
4 more examples
- My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans.1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80:
- Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer.1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of Colonel De Lancey, page 79:
- And she began flobbering, almost imperceptibly, toward the scrubby brown growth beyond the sand and toward the sun.1978, James Thurber, Further fables for our time, page 2:
- They flobber as they walk with their fat damp flabby feet.1990, Richard Francis, The Land where Lost Things Go by Olive Watson, page 227: