flibberty-gibbet

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Noun[edit]

flibberty-gibbet (plural flibberty-gibbets)

  1. Alternative spelling of flibbertigibbet
    • 1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 63:
      For a student of such a serious subject as literature that lad is the most incorrigible flibberty-gibbet.
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