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. |