floaty

Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.

[S]ome fevv buttes of beare being flotie they got, vvhich though it had lien ſix moneths vnder vvater vvas very good, […]

The Oxonians, too, though, judging by avoirdupois, they were big enough for the floatiest outrigger, preferred the old friend in which they had won the 'Varsity in 1878 and 'suffered' last year.

Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.

I then told my Lord of Eſſex that mine vvas a floaty ſhip and vvell appointed for that ſervice; […]

The extream length of a Ship makes her unapt to ſtay, eſpecially if ſhe be floatie and vvant ſharpneſſe of vvay forvvard.

Of music: light and relaxing.

All the floaty music in the world could not disguise my grunts [during a massage] as I clenched my teeth and curled my toes to fight the pain.

Notice that this chord seems to be floating up in the air. If you strum Dsus2 instead of D, you can make your chord seem more haunting or drifting. […] This chord [Dsus4] has an even floatier feel than Dsus2 and is out of tune for other chords.

Of an object: light and flimsy or soft; specifically, of a dress: lightweight, so as to rise away from the body when the wearer is moving.

O here is a Bed / Shrinkproofer than that, / A floatier, boatier / Bed than that!

But deep down she had a passion for kitchen comforts— […] for a perfectly piped butter icing on top of the highest, lightest, floatiest lemon cupcake.

Of a person: feeling calm, dreamy, happy, etc., as if floating in the air.

[A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […]

Surprise! Surprise! When the lights flick on in a darkened room and grinning friends spring from behind the sofa, joy jumps up like a jack-in-the-box. We feel bubblier than any vintage champagne, floatier than a bunch of balloons.

A particle of food, etc., found floating in liquid.

Why don't you stop slathering millions of things on your face, and lather up with my gentle Swan? It's the loveliest, pure, mild floatie—why, it'll get you clean as a baby!

I have always loved the way he just walks up and feels free to drink out my glass or bottle of water. I admit, when he was a baby I tried to give him his own sippy cup and avoid the little ‘floaties’ that little ones leave in your drink. But if there was no sippy cup available, I fished out the floaties and drank it anyway.

A lilo (inflatable air mattress) or similar object that floats on water and can be lain or sat on.

I am going to begin with a confession that seems to me to be startling less for its content than for the sheer number of similar stories that I have heard related among so many of my successful women friends. Prevalent as it is, it always surfaces abruptly, bobbing awkwardly as a lone yellow floatie in the public pool of our conversations.

My best friend just may be the Florida champ of floatie racing. Or she at least has the Cape Canaveral title. She pushed the flamingo floatie to the opposite end of the pool in record time. I come in a distant second, as usual. This, after my best efforts to use my ginormous floatie to bump her off course, splashing us both.

Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”).

As an escaped megalodon swims close to a busy beach, we see humanity at its most chompable: chubby kids in floaties, doofuses on pontoons, some dork in a tight Speedo rolling around in one of those big inflatable Zorb balls. But alas, the movie is a gore-free PG-13, and though CGI has long since replaced animatronics as the monster movie's weapon of choice, one thing hasn’t changed: giant killer fish still look like they’re made of rubber.