a. That ‘goes flip-flop’; loose, dangling.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 83. She is a gaunt, awkward girl, in a ‘flibberty-flobberty’ hat, a skimping gray cape, with thunder-and-lightning buttons, an absurdly short skirt, and lace-edged trousers, that trail over her sandaled shoes.
1869. Trollope, He knew, etc., xii. He had on a short, rough jacket, with enormous buttons, and one of those flipperty-flopperty things on his head, that the butcher-boys wear.
