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flubber

noun

Etymology

Blend of flying + rubber; originally the name of a fictional substance in the film The Absent-Minded Professor (1961).

  1. inherited from *rubbōną✻
  2. inherited from rubben
  3. suffixed as rubber — “rub + er”
  4. compounded as flubber — “flying + rubber”

Definitions

  1. A rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol with a boron compound,…

    A rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol with a boron compound, used as a plaything or to demonstrate physical properties.

  2. One who flubs

    One who flubs; a goof, a person who makes errors while speaking.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for flubber. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA