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22Dec2006

Fun Friday: Great lost words

DateFriday, December 22, 2006 at 3:00PM
flibbertigibbet \FLIB-ur-tee-jib-it\, noun:
A silly, flighty, or scatterbrained person, especially a pert young woman with such qualities.

We discover here not the flibbertigibbet Connolly describes but a serious reader (Goethe, Tolstoy, Proust) who found her cultural ideal in 18th-century France.

~ Martin Stannard, "Enter Shrieking", New York Times, November 28, 1993
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