Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to flobber
Participle: flobbered
Gerund: flobbering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | flobber |
| you | flobber |
| he;she;it | flobbers |
| we | flobber |
| you | flobber |
| they | flobber |
Perfect
| I | have flobbered |
| you | have flobbered |
| he;she;it | has flobbered |
| we | have flobbered |
| you | have flobbered |
| they | have flobbered |
Past
| I | flobbered |
| you | flobbered |
| he;she;it | flobbered |
| we | flobbered |
| you | flobbered |
| they | flobbered |
Pluperfect
| I | had flobbered |
| you | had flobbered |
| he;she;it | had flobbered |
| we | had flobbered |
| you | had flobbered |
| they | had flobbered |
Future
| I | will flobber |
| you | will flobber |
| he;she;it | will flobber |
| we | will flobber |
| you | will flobber |
| they | will flobber |
Future Perfect
| I | will have flobbered |
| you | will have flobbered |
| he;she;it | will have flobbered |
| we | will have flobbered |
| you | will have flobbered |
| they | will have flobbered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | flobber |
| you | flobber |
| he;she;it | flobber |
| we | flobber |
| you | flobber |
| they | flobber |
Perfect
| I | have flobbered |
| you | have flobbered |
| he;she;it | have flobbered |
| we | have flobbered |
| you | have flobbered |
| they | have flobbered |
Imperfect
| I | flobbered |
| you | flobbered |
| he;she;it | flobbered |
| we | flobbered |
| you | flobbered |
| they | flobbered |
Pluperfect
| I | had flobbered |
| you | had flobbered |
| he;she;it | had flobbered |
| we | had flobbered |
| you | had flobbered |
| they | had flobbered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would flobber |
| you | would flobber |
| he;she;it | would flobber |
| we | would flobber |
| you | would flobber |
| they | would flobber |
Perfect
| I | would have flobbered |
| you | would have flobbered |
| he;she;it | would have flobbered |
| we | would have flobbered |
| you | would have flobbered |
| they | would have flobbered |
Imperative
| you | flobber |
| we | Let's flobber |
| you | flobber |
Verbs conjugated like 'flobber'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'flobber'
clobber,
slobber,
blabber,
blubber,
clabber,
flower,
slabber,
slubber,
beslobber,
blooter,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Perhaps a blend of flop + wobble.
Sample Sentences
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And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'! [1887, Punch - Volumes 93-96, page 45:]
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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:]
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My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans. [1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80:]
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Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer. [1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of Colonel De Lancey, page 79:]
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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:]
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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:]
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He flobbered and flumped all over chairs, and he talked endlessly in that rapid, insinuating, confidential marshmallow voice of his - so swift to compassion! [1991, Wilbur Sanders, The Big Wolves, page 101:]
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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. [2002, A. M. Jolly, Grumble Soup, →ISBN:]
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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. [2006, Patricia Marks, The 'Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters, →ISBN, page 69:]
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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. [2012, Steve Turner, Amber Waves and Undertow, →ISBN:]
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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. [2013 May 31, Charlotte Higgins, “Venice Biennale diary: dancing strippers and inflatable targets”, in The Guardian:]