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.

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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.

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1882.  A. S. Gibson, The Adventures of the Pig Family, xxx.

        Oh, how they flobb’d, and how they flopp’d,
  And flounder’d all around!
Poor Sarah flew the farthest ere
  She lit upon the ground.

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