frippetn.
/ˈfrɪpᵻt/, U.S. /ˈfrɪpᵻt/ slang.
A frivolous or showy young woman.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > light-mindedness > [noun] > person > female
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1908 D. H. Lawrence Let. 15 May (1962) I. 11 The girl will have a soul—she will not be a frippet.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. May 673/2 ‘Frippets—three in number,’ was the..diagnosis.
1933 W. Chetham Strode Sometimes Even Now iii. ii. 89 I'll invite him—and he can bring all his ‘lovelys’ and ‘frippets’ with him.
1945 E. Taylor At Mrs Lippincote's xxiii. 196 ‘Mistress!’ he thought... It was like the swine of a man to use such a word for what he and Edwards would have called a bit of a frippet.
1960 W. Sheed Middle Class Educ. (1961) 50 Did you have a rewarding life experience last night with that rather enticing bit of frippet?
1971 D. Clark Sick to Death vi. 123 Quite a nice bit of frippet. But too young for me. I like a mature woman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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