flippingadv.adj.
/ˈflɪpɪŋ/ slang.
Used as a substitute for a strong expletive. Usually derogatory (Cf. blinking adj. 4.)
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1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock ii. ix. 347 ‘Ain' it flippin 'ot?’ drawled Creswell.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident i. 2 Flipping heroes, ain't we all?
1954 A. Heckstall-Smith Eighteen Months xii. 145 I suggested that..he might take up the game professionally. He shook his head. ‘Too much flippin' trainin',’ he sneered.
1959 Spectator 20 Nov. 713/3 While terms of approval..change rapidly with the fashion, terms of disapproval (blinking..flippin' awful..) show very little alteration.
1971 Guardian 24 Aug. 5/1 They wax indignant about pornography but when it comes to doing anything about it they are bone flipping lazy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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