floppy

«floppy» in Mova's school dictionary: Soft and hanging down loosely, not stiff: «a dog with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (floppy, floppier, floppiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Soft and hanging down loosely, not stiff: «a dog with floppy ears». tree →

2) Weak and limp: «a floppy plant needs water». tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life: floppy hats for sun safety, floppy ears on a rabbit or dog, floppy plants that need water. In science, a plant goes floppy when it lacks water. In health, a baby or person who suddenly goes floppy needs a doctor at once. The «floppy disk» was an old computer storage disk. Phrases: «floppy ears», «floppy hat».

examples

• Our puppy has long floppy ears. tree →
• Wear a floppy hat in the sun. tree →
• The plant went floppy because I forgot to water it. tree →
• The rag doll is soft and floppy. tree →
• My lettuce is all floppy now. tree →
• Grandpa saved his work on a floppy disk long ago. tree →

note

Comparative: floppier, floppiest. Opposite: stiff, firm. Informal and friendly word.

In the corpora

• A camel's hump stores fat, not water; when food is short the camel uses the fat and the hump goes floppy.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «floppy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.