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Examples of flibbertigibbet
flibbertigibbet
Forget that flibbertigibbet Cameron with his cycling and penchant for green ties.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
She enjoyed her new life of luxury while it lasted, but she was no flibbertigibbet.
From the economist.com
My mum used to call me scatty and a flibbertigibbet because I could never sit still.
From the express.co.uk
Nothing in your history to date suggests a flibbertigibbet.
From the guardian.co.uk
She describes Jane as something of a flibbertigibbet.
From the heraldtribune.com
She has made her mark, too, among the roll-call of famous bonneted faces in Cranford, as the flibbertigibbet Octavia Pole.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I'm still mad at Ted Sorenson for making those flibbertigibbet Kennedy boys sound like Winston Churchill with bangs.
From the online.wsj.com
Sedgwick's Brenda Johnson strikes me as too big a flibbertigibbet ever to command a major investigative unit.
From the philly.com
Andrei is a prince but married to a flibbertigibbet.
From the independent.co.uk
- A female fool
- Flibbertigibbet is a Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person, usually a young woman. In modern use, it is used as a slang term, especially in Yorkshire, for a gossipy or overly talkative person. Its origin is in a meaningless representation of chattering.
- An offbeat, skittish person; especially said of a young woman; An imp, a fiend; A flighty person; someone regarded as silly, irresponsible, or scatterbrained, especially someone who chatters or gossips
- A silly, flighty person; hence, flibbertigibbety
- An impulsive, flighty, or garrulous person
- Nonsense, balderdash.
