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flibbertigibbet

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[ UK /flˈɪbətˌɪd‍ʒəbbɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a female fool

How To Use flibbertigibbet In A Sentence

  • For all the seniors out there that find Elizabeth Taylor still relevant, a flibbertigibbet is basically a chatty gossip. Elizabeth Taylor urges primary voters to back Clinton
  • She is a young flibbertigibbet who inherits her sister's three children after a car accident.
  • Back in the 1960s, when I was but a young flibbertigibbet, there was consternation when The Sunday Times introduced the concept of including a magazine with the newspaper.
  • Here, Keaton's la-di-da flibbertigibbet dissolved all of her neurotic mannerisms and simply stood still, gently and lovingly warbling what became the film's essence.
  • ‘You're talking rubbish,’ said I, incensed that a flibbertigibbet biscuit such as the pink iced ones with white swirls could be held in higher regard than a Rich Tea which, as any fool knows, is a noble biscuit with real dignity.
  • Shakespeare apparently saw a devilish aspect to a gossipy chatterer; he used "flibbertigibbet" in Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • My Queen Rat has charm and she's a bit of a flibbertigibbet as well!
  • But one day Flibbertigibbet -- so Sister Angelica called the little girl from her first coming to the Asylum, and the name clung to her -- was sent to the infirmary in the upper story because of a slight illness; while there she made the discovery of the "Marchioness. Flamsted quarries
  • Hollywood, in 2002, views him as a spoiled child, a ready to raise a fuss flibbertigibbet who can't wait for someone to criticize his vision so he can go goofy on them.
  • Instead, Bergman is stuck playing a polite flibbertigibbet, the kind of helpless royal who many would consider scandalous if she wasn't so pure in her personal morality.
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