a. colloq. [f. FLOP v. + -Y1.] Inclined to flop, having a tendency to flop about.
1858. Geo. Eliot, Scenes Clerical Life, Amos Barton, ii. The caps she wore would have been pronounced, when off her head, utterly heavy and hideous,—for in those days even fashionable caps were large and floppy: but surmounting her long arched neck, and mingling their borders of cheap lace and ribbon with her chestnut curls, they seemed miracles of successful millinery.
1890. Pall Mall G., 2 Sept., 7/1. A divided skirt … is the clumsiest, floppiest … article that a woman can put on.
Hence Floppily adv.; Floppiness.
1884. St. James’s Gaz., 11 Sept., 6/2. An aimless feeble old humbug, he sits floppily on the wrong side of his boat.
1892. Daily News, 2 July, 6/7. There is now a regrettable tendency to ‘floppiness’ of attire.
