flipperyn.
/ˈflɪpəri/ rare.† 1. = frippery n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling clothes, cloth, or accessories > second-hand
frippery1598
flipperya1625
rag shop1674
old clothes shop1729
rag store1849
tagarene shop1855
a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) ii. sig. D3v If I be brought..to carry..any gentle Lady of the Laundry..behinde my gelding, with all her streamers, knapsacks, glasses, Gugawes, as if I were a running flippery [Dyce prints frippery].
2. Flippancy.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > lack of seriousness > [noun]
levity1564
unseriousness1672
flippancy1746
flippery1819
1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) III. 86 He had a flippery in writing, et voila tout.
1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. vi. 131 ‘Mustn't she be a horrid, heartless, little bit of flippery?’
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