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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/#m1)

2) Weak and limp: «a floppy plant needs water». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/#x1)
- Wear a floppy hat in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/#x2)
- The plant went floppy because I forgot to water it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/#x3)
- The rag doll is soft and floppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/#x4)
- My lettuce is all floppy now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/#x5)
- Grandpa saved his work on a floppy disk long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «floppy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/floppy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.