rare.
† 1. = FRIPPERY.
a. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Wit without M., II. v. If I be brought, as I know it will be aimed at, to carry any durty dairy creame pot, or any gentle Lady of the Laundry, chambring, or wantonnesse, behinde my gelding, with all her streamers, knapsackes, glasses, gugawes, as if I were a running flippery, Ile give um leave to cut my girts and slay me.
2. Flippancy.
1819. E. S. Barrett, Metropolis, III. 86. He had a flippery in writing, et voila tout.
1863. Ouida, Held in Bondage, I. vi. 131. ‘Mustn’t she be a horrid, heartless, little bit of flippery?’
