flobber n Cp EDD ~ 'anything loose and flabby.' The soft lap of a wave (on rocks); usu in phr not a flobber; WAG.
   1937 DEVINE 22 ~ The gentlest possible motion of waves striking the rocks. 'Not a flobber,' is a dead calm. 'Not a wag of sea.' 1951 Nfld & Lab Pilot i, 219 Flobber Cove islet, 15 feet high, with two drying rocks close east-north-eastward, P 187-73 [There's] not a flobber. A phrase which means the sea is very calm.

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