floppy

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  Rhymes: -ɒpi

Etymology

flop +‎ -y

Adjective

floppy (comparative floppier, superlative floppiest)

1. Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
   • 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 3,

     The smile, the white collar worn with a dark shirt, the floppy breast-pocket handkerchief would surely be famous when the chaps in the rows behind were mere forgotten grins and frowns.

Derived terms

• floppy disk, floppy disc

Translations

limp, not hard, firm or rigid; flexible

• Chinese: 懶散的, 懒散的 (lǎn sǎn de)
• Dutch: slap (nl)
• Finnish: lerppu (fi)
• French: souple (fr) m and f
• German: schlaff (de)
• Greek: πλαδαρός (el) (pladarós) m
• Icelandic: linur (is) m

• Italian: floscio (it) m, floscia (it) f
• Japanese: だらしない (ja) (darashinai)
• Korean: 느슨한 (neuseunhan)
• Portuguese: flexível (pt) m and f
• Russian: гибкий
• Spanish: flojo (es) m

Noun

floppy (plural floppies)

1. (computing) A floppy disk

Synonyms

• diskette

Derived terms

• mini-floppy
• micro-floppy

Translations

(computing) a floppy disk

• Chinese: 磁碟, 磁盘 (cí pán)
• Finnish: (5¼-inch) (slang) lerppu, (3½-inch) (slang) korppu
• French: disquette (fr) f
• German: Diskette f, Floppy Disc f
• Greek: δισκέτα (el) (diskéta) f

• Italian: floppy disk (it) m, floppy (it) m, dischetto (it) m
• Japanese: フロッピィ (furoppii)
• Korean: 플로피 (peuropi)
• Portuguese: disco flexível m
• Russian: дискета (ru) (disketa) m