Obs. exc. dial. [Echoic.] (See quot. 1847).

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1640.  King & poore North. Man, 36 in Hazl., E. P. P., IV. 307.

        I nere saw such a flipper de flapper before;
  here’s keele I doe think is made of a whetstone.
Heer’s dousets and flappjacks, and I ken not what;
  I thinke, in the worlde such feasts there is none.

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1847.  Halliwell, Flipper-de-flapper, noise and confusion caused by show. Sussex.

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