flapping

Speech parts

1. flapping - Noun

2. flapping - Adjective

3. flapping - Verb

Derived from flap

Meaning

of Flap

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

flap flutter fluttering slack wave flying roll beat blow loose floating swing beating relaxed blowing
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Antonyms

active benefit agree fresh compact static
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Hypernyms

wave undulation

Phrases with the word

flapping tremor

Examples

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did. Robert Jordan

If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe. Charlie Huston

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. Angela Carter

A flapping tongue can put you in the net instead of the fish. Robert Jordan

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare; And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. Francis Thompson

Save your fowl before it stops flapping. Guinea Proverb

Close letter words and terms

flapperish flapperism flappet flapping hinge flapping tremor flappingly