flip-flapadv.n.adj.

Brit.

/ˈflɪpflap/, U.S.

/ˈflɪpˌflæp/

Etymology: A reduplication with vowel variation of flap n., expressive of repeated oscillating movement.

A. adv.

With a repeated flapping movement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adverb] > flapping loosely

flip-flap1583

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Dvii^v Then they goe flip flap in the winde.

1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 35 Flounders fried in oatmeal..with their tails jerking Flip, flap, in the frizzle of the pan.

B. n.

†1. Something that ‘goes flip-flap’ (see A.), e.g. a hanging piece of cloth, a fan, a fly-flapper. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > hanging or overlapping part

lapc897

tippetc1300

tag1402

labey1497

toque1505

flip-flap1529

flap1530

slipe1540

lambeau1562

lappet1573

flappet?1578

fall-down?1796

wrap-over1935

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > flapping loosely > that which

flip-flap1598

wallop1776

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > device for catching flies > device for driving off flies

werela1390

flapc1440

fly-flapc1440

flapper1570

flip-flap1600

cow-tail1672

fly-flapper1749

chauri1777

fly-brush1838

fly-whisk1838

fly-duster1860

scare-fly1862

fly-whipper1872

fly-fan1891

fly-flick1914

fly-swatter1917

swatter1917

fly-swish1922

swatting1925

fly-swat1937

1529 J. Skelton Elynour Rummyng 514 Couer thy shap Wyth sum flyp flap.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ventaglio..a flip flap or any thing to make wind with.

1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. C2 If I heare any gingling, but of the purse strings that goe flip, flap, flip, flap, flip, flap, would I were turnd into a flip-flap, and solde to the Butchers.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Esventoir, a fanne, flip-flap.

†2. A frivolous woman: = flap n. 9. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female

gig?c1225

gigleta1340

halok?1507

fizgiga1529

gilliea1529

flirt1562

peat1566

sluta1592

gillian flirt1593

giggle1611

filly1616

jill-flirt1627

flibbertigibbet1640

flirtigig1683

flip-flap1702

gamine1848

kitten1870

sillypop1894

frippet1908

1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend 1 The light airy flipflap, she kills him with her motions.

3. slang.

a. ‘A kind of somersault in which the performer throws himself over on his hands and feet alternately’; also, ‘a peculiar rollicking dance indulged in by costers’ ( Slang Dict. 1864).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]

dance of Macabre?c1430

springc1450

lege de moya1529

bobc1550

lusty gallant1569

duret1613

fading1613

huckler1617

ground-measure1621

entry1631

slatter de pouchc1640

ballo1651

Irish trot1651

omnium gatheruma1652

clutterdepouch1652

upspring1654

passacaglia1659

shuffle1659

passacaille1667

flip-flap1676

chaconne1685

charmer1702

Cheshire-round1706

Louvre1729

stick dance1730

white joke1730

baby dance1744

Nancy Dawson1766

fricassee1775

bumpkin1785

Totentanz1789

Flora('s) dance1790

goombay1790

egg-dance1801

supper dance1820

Congo dance1823

slip-jig1829

bran-dance1833

roly-poly1833

Congo1835

mazy1841

furry1848

bull-dance1855

stampede1856

double-shuffling1859

frog dance1863

hokee-pokee1873

plait dance1876

slow dancing1884

snake dance1895

beast dance1900

soft-shoe1900

cakewalk1902

floral dance1911

snake dance1911

apache dance1912

grizzly bear1912

jazz dance1917

jazz dancing1917

jazz1919

wine-dance1920

camel-walk1921

furry dance1928

snake-dance1931

pas d'action1936

trance dancing1956

touch dance1965

hokey-cokey1966

moonwalk1969

moonwalking1983

Crip Walk1989

mapantsula1990

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > somersault > types of

back-somersault1577

flip-flap1727

handspring1833

1676 Char. Quack-doctor 5 He danc'd a Saraband with Flip flaps, and Sommersets.

1727 J. Gay Fables I. xl. 136 The tumbler whirles the flip-flap round, With sommersets he shakes the ground.

1764 Garrick in G. Colman Posthumous Lett. (1820) 256 Flip flaps, and great changes without meaning.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxxi, in Writings I. 324 This..iniquitous world—a world of flip-flaps and sumersets.

Categories »

b. In sailors' use: ‘The arm’ (Barrère & Leland 1889). Cf. flipper n.² 2.

c. A kind of firework, a cracker.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > cracker or squib

squib1534

crackera1592

breaker1630

serpent1634

fizgig1647

firecracker1650

petard1668

reporter1688

riprap1709

swarmer1740

mine1769

India cracker1780

throwdown1877

whizz-bang1881

flip-flap1885

snake1891

thunderflash1943

banger1959

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Nov. 4/1 To-night..the sound of the obtrusive and saltatory flip-flap will be heard in the streets of Great Britain.

d. In a place of amusement or the amusement section of an exhibition, etc., a machine with long moving arms by which passengers are raised on platforms (see quot. 1908).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > other rides

wiggle-waggle1825

helter-skelter lighthouse1906

cakewalk1908

flip-flap1908

ghost train1931

tunnel of love1954

log flume1963

razzle1969

flume1978

1908 Daily Chron. 3 Apr. 7/2 The..huge steel arms [are] 150 ft. in length, much like the main shaft of a crane, greatly magnified... These arms will be slowly raised until their extremities cross in the air, 150 ft. above the level, and then each will complete the semi-circle. Suspended from..the hand of each steel arm will be a car containing passengers... The flip-flap is built on the cantilever principle with heavy counter weights.

1922 C. Sidgwick Victorian xxii He is going to have millions of Japanese lanterns and a Flip-Flap and an open air café like at Earl's Court.

1937 Evening News 2 Feb. 8/6 Those who were young enough..for such delights thirty years ago must have been surprised to learn that the Flip-Flap of Franco-British Exhibition fame is still in existence.

4. U.S. ‘A kind of tea-cake’ (Farmer).

ΚΠ

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. v. 92 As we sat over her dough-nuts and flipflaps.

C. adj.

That ‘goes flip-flap’ (see A.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > flapping loosely

flaffinga1522

flapping1592

swapping1642

flappish1665

flopping1679

flip-flap1841

slatting1883

aflap1887

flappy1905

1841 Blackwood's Mag. 1 635 Music..with..butterfly flip-flap flights, and die-away cadences.

1888 Spectator 7 July 934 That easy imitation of French flip-flap brush work which is so fashionable at the present time.

Derivatives

ˈflip-flap v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > flap loosely

wapc1400

flaffa1522

flap1529

flip-flap1599

flop1602

flasker1689

wamfle1808

wallop1822

flacket1823

flapper1835

swap1884

slat1889

faffle1951

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 37 The sly sheepe-biter..summer setted & fliptflapt it twenty times aboue ground.

1894 H. Caine Manxman iv. xii. 245 Nancy Joe went flip-flapping upstairs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	flip-flap
释义	flip-flapadv.n.adj. Brit. /ˈflɪpflap/, U.S. /ˈflɪpˌflæp/ Etymology: A reduplication with vowel variation of flap n., expressive of repeated oscillating movement. A. adv. With a repeated flapping movement. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adverb] > flapping loosely flip-flap1583 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Dvii^v Then they goe flip flap in the winde. 1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 35 Flounders fried in oatmeal..with their tails jerking Flip, flap, in the frizzle of the pan. B. n. †1. Something that ‘goes flip-flap’ (see A.), e.g. a hanging piece of cloth, a fan, a fly-flapper. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > hanging or overlapping part lapc897 tippetc1300 tag1402 labey1497 toque1505 flip-flap1529 flap1530 slipe1540 lambeau1562 lappet1573 flappet?1578 fall-down?1796 wrap-over1935 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > flapping loosely > that which flip-flap1598 wallop1776 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > device for catching flies > device for driving off flies werela1390 flapc1440 fly-flapc1440 flapper1570 flip-flap1600 cow-tail1672 fly-flapper1749 chauri1777 fly-brush1838 fly-whisk1838 fly-duster1860 scare-fly1862 fly-whipper1872 fly-fan1891 fly-flick1914 fly-swatter1917 swatter1917 fly-swish1922 swatting1925 fly-swat1937 1529 J. Skelton Elynour Rummyng 514 Couer thy shap Wyth sum flyp flap. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ventaglio..a flip flap or any thing to make wind with. 1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. C2 If I heare any gingling, but of the purse strings that goe flip, flap, flip, flap, flip, flap, would I were turnd into a flip-flap, and solde to the Butchers. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Esventoir, a fanne, flip-flap. †2. A frivolous woman: = flap n. 9. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female gig?c1225 gigleta1340 halok?1507 fizgiga1529 gilliea1529 flirt1562 peat1566 sluta1592 gillian flirt1593 giggle1611 filly1616 jill-flirt1627 flibbertigibbet1640 flirtigig1683 flip-flap1702 gamine1848 kitten1870 sillypop1894 frippet1908 1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend 1 The light airy flipflap, she kills him with her motions. 3. slang. a. ‘A kind of somersault in which the performer throws himself over on his hands and feet alternately’; also, ‘a peculiar rollicking dance indulged in by costers’ ( Slang Dict. 1864). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun] dance of Macabre?c1430 springc1450 lege de moya1529 bobc1550 lusty gallant1569 duret1613 fading1613 huckler1617 ground-measure1621 entry1631 slatter de pouchc1640 ballo1651 Irish trot1651 omnium gatheruma1652 clutterdepouch1652 upspring1654 passacaglia1659 shuffle1659 passacaille1667 flip-flap1676 chaconne1685 charmer1702 Cheshire-round1706 Louvre1729 stick dance1730 white joke1730 baby dance1744 Nancy Dawson1766 fricassee1775 bumpkin1785 Totentanz1789 Flora('s) dance1790 goombay1790 egg-dance1801 supper dance1820 Congo dance1823 slip-jig1829 bran-dance1833 roly-poly1833 Congo1835 mazy1841 furry1848 bull-dance1855 stampede1856 double-shuffling1859 frog dance1863 hokee-pokee1873 plait dance1876 slow dancing1884 snake dance1895 beast dance1900 soft-shoe1900 cakewalk1902 floral dance1911 snake dance1911 apache dance1912 grizzly bear1912 jazz dance1917 jazz dancing1917 jazz1919 wine-dance1920 camel-walk1921 furry dance1928 snake-dance1931 pas d'action1936 trance dancing1956 touch dance1965 hokey-cokey1966 moonwalk1969 moonwalking1983 Crip Walk1989 mapantsula1990 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > somersault > types of back-somersault1577 flip-flap1727 handspring1833 1676 Char. Quack-doctor 5 He danc'd a Saraband with Flip flaps, and Sommersets. 1727 J. Gay Fables I. xl. 136 The tumbler whirles the flip-flap round, With sommersets he shakes the ground. 1764 Garrick in G. Colman Posthumous Lett. (1820) 256 Flip flaps, and great changes without meaning. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxxi, in Writings I. 324 This..iniquitous world—a world of flip-flaps and sumersets. Categories » b. In sailors' use: ‘The arm’ (Barrère & Leland 1889). Cf. flipper n.² 2. c. A kind of firework, a cracker. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > firework > [noun] > cracker or squib squib1534 crackera1592 breaker1630 serpent1634 fizgig1647 firecracker1650 petard1668 reporter1688 riprap1709 swarmer1740 mine1769 India cracker1780 throwdown1877 whizz-bang1881 flip-flap1885 snake1891 thunderflash1943 banger1959 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Nov. 4/1 To-night..the sound of the obtrusive and saltatory flip-flap will be heard in the streets of Great Britain. d. In a place of amusement or the amusement section of an exhibition, etc., a machine with long moving arms by which passengers are raised on platforms (see quot. 1908). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > other rides wiggle-waggle1825 helter-skelter lighthouse1906 cakewalk1908 flip-flap1908 ghost train1931 tunnel of love1954 log flume1963 razzle1969 flume1978 1908 Daily Chron. 3 Apr. 7/2 The..huge steel arms [are] 150 ft. in length, much like the main shaft of a crane, greatly magnified... These arms will be slowly raised until their extremities cross in the air, 150 ft. above the level, and then each will complete the semi-circle. Suspended from..the hand of each steel arm will be a car containing passengers... The flip-flap is built on the cantilever principle with heavy counter weights. 1922 C. Sidgwick Victorian xxii He is going to have millions of Japanese lanterns and a Flip-Flap and an open air café like at Earl's Court. 1937 Evening News 2 Feb. 8/6 Those who were young enough..for such delights thirty years ago must have been surprised to learn that the Flip-Flap of Franco-British Exhibition fame is still in existence. 4. U.S. ‘A kind of tea-cake’ (Farmer). ΚΠ 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. v. 92 As we sat over her dough-nuts and flipflaps. C. adj. That ‘goes flip-flap’ (see A.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > flapping loosely flaffinga1522 flapping1592 swapping1642 flappish1665 flopping1679 flip-flap1841 slatting1883 aflap1887 flappy1905 1841 Blackwood's Mag. 1 635 Music..with..butterfly flip-flap flights, and die-away cadences. 1888 Spectator 7 July 934 That easy imitation of French flip-flap brush work which is so fashionable at the present time. Derivatives ˈflip-flap v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > flap loosely wapc1400 flaffa1522 flap1529 flip-flap1599 flop1602 flasker1689 wamfle1808 wallop1822 flacket1823 flapper1835 swap1884 slat1889 faffle1951 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 37 The sly sheepe-biter..summer setted & fliptflapt it twenty times aboue ground. 1894 H. Caine Manxman iv. xii. 245 Nancy Joe went flip-flapping upstairs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.n.adj.1529
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