floppy

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English flop

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English floppy

From flop + -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɒ.pi/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒpi

Adjective

floppy (comparative floppier, superlative floppiest)

1. Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 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.

Synonyms

• flopsy

Derived terms

• flip-floppy
• flippy floppy / flippy-floppy
• floppily
• floppiness
• floppy baby syndrome
• floppy disk / floppy disc
• floppy diskette
• floppy eyelid syndrome
• floppy infant syndrome
• floppy trunk syndrome
• floppy-wristed
• floptical
• intraoperative floppy iris syndrome
• stringy floppy
• superfloppy

Translations

limp, not hard, firm or rigid; flexible — see also flaccid,‎ floppy

• Bulgarian: отпуснат (bg) (otpusnat), увиснал (bg) (uvisnal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懶散的 / 懒散的 (zh) (lǎnsǎn de)

• Danish: slap
• Dutch: slap (nl)
• Estonian: lõtv
• Finnish: lerppu (fi)
• French: souple (fr) m or f
• German: schlaff (de)
• Greek: πλαδαρός (el) m (pladarós)

  Ancient Greek: πλαδαρός (pladarós)

• Icelandic: linur (is) m
• Irish: liobarnach
• Italian: floscio (it) m, floscia (it) f
• Japanese: だらしない (ja) (darashinai)
• Korean: 느슨한 (neuseunhan)
• Latin: flaccidus
• Portuguese: flexível (pt) m or f
• Russian: ги́бкий (ru) (gíbkij)
• Spanish: flojo (es), desplomoso, colapsoso

Noun

floppy (plural floppies)

1. (computing, dated) A floppy disk.
2. (military slang, Rhodesia, South Africa) An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot.

   Synonyms: terr, gook

   • 1997, Dick Gledhill, One Commando: Rhodesia's Last Years & the Guerilla^[sic] War It Never Lost, page 55:

     "Ja, our job is not to think or make decisions. We just here to slay floppies," remarked Koos.

3. (informal) A comic book.
   • 2013, Nickie D. Phillips, Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way, page 226:

     We suggest that the impact of comic books is greater than it may first appear. Though individual sales of floppies may be low compared to, say, dollar grosses on motion pictures or may reach fewer viewers than a summer blockbuster […]

Hypernyms

floppy disk

• disc, disk

Hyponyms

floppy disk

• diskette
• flippy
• flippy disc, flippy disk
• flippy diskette
• flippy floppy, flippy-floppy
• floppy diskette
• micro floppy, micro-floppy, microfloppy
• mini floppy, mini-floppy, minifloppy

Derived terms

floppy disk

• flippy
• flippy disc, flippy disk
• flippy diskette
• flippy floppy, flippy-floppy
• floppy disc drive, floppy disk drive
• floppy diskette drive
• floppy drive
• floppyful
• micro floppy, micro-floppy, microfloppy
• mini floppy, mini-floppy, minifloppy

Translations

(computing) a floppy disk

• Bulgarian: диске́та f (diskéta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 磁碟 (zh) (cídié), 磁盘 (zh) (cípán)

• Danish: diskette c, floppydisk c
• Finnish: levyke (fi), (slang, 5+¹⁄₄-inch) lerppu (fi), (slang, 3+¹⁄₂-inch) korppu
• French: disquette (fr) f
• German: Diskette (de) f, Floppy Disc (de) f
• Greek: δισκέτα (el) f (diskéta)
• Italian: floppy disk (it) m, floppy (it) m, dischetto (it) m, disco flessibile m, disco floscio m
• Japanese: フロッピー (ja) (furoppī)
• Korean: 플로피 (peullopi)
• Marathi: फ्लॉपी f (phlŏpī)
• Portuguese: disco flexível m
• Russian: диске́та (ru) m (diskéta)
• Spanish: disquete (es) m

Anagrams

• pop fly

Chinese

Etymology

From English floppy.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fop¹ pi²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fop¹ pi²
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fop⁷ pi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːp̚⁵ pʰiː³⁵/

(Cantonese (alternative)): IPA^(key): /flɔːp⁵ pʰiː³⁵/

Noun

floppy

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) floppy disk (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
   • 1998 February 17, 網路超人, “Acer賤機點format好?”, in hk.entertainment‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Acer有無隻boot機floppy俾你!!?? [Cantonese, trad.]
     Acer有无只boot机floppy俾你!!?? [Cantonese, simp.]

     Acer jau⁵ mou⁵ zek³ boot gei¹ floppy bei² nei⁵!!?? [Jyutping]

     Does Acer have a boot floppy for you!!??

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 軟磁盤 (“floppy disc”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		軟磁盤 Mainland China, 軟盤 Mainland China, 軟碟 Taiwan, Hong Kong, 軟磁碟 Taiwan, Hong Kong, 磁片 Taiwan
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	軟碟
Cantonese	Hong Kong	磁碟, 軟碟, floppy
Southern Min	Xiamen	軟盤
	Quanzhou	軟盤
	Zhangzhou	軟盤