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flippery rare.|ˈflɪpərɪ| †1. = frippery.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. ii. v, If I be brought..to carry..any gentle Lady of the Laundry..behinde my gelding, with all her Streamers, Knapsacks, Glasses, Gu⁓gawes, as if I were a running flippery [Dyce prints frippery]. 2. Flippancy.
1819Metropolis III. 86 He had a flippery in writing, et voila tout. 1863Ouida Held in Bondage I. vi. 131 ‘Mustn't she be a horrid, heartless, little bit of flippery?’ |