v. [onomatopœic var. of FLOP v., indicating a softer movement and duller sound (see FLABBY).] intr. To move heavily or clumsily, with a dull heavy sound.
1860. Squires & Parsons, 196. Fine cock-pheasants, heavy with buck-wheat and maize flobbed up through the branches of the trees, were fired at and flobbed down again.
1882. A. S. Gibson, The Adventures of the Pig Family, xxx.
| Oh, how they flobbd, and how they floppd, | |
| And flounderd all around! | |
| Poor Sarah flew the farthest ere | |
| She lit upon the ground. |