flibbertigibbet

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You'll be insane about 'em--Rosemary's the most beguilin' flibbertigibbet, and I can't wait to see you bein' a kind of an elderly grandmother to her.

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  • I certainly didn't want to tangle with a demon or devil, and I didn't trust the hobgoblin, and I didn't know what a flibbertigibbet was, so I took the one most likely to be female: the sprite. —  Alien Plot by Piers Anthony
  • You'll be insane about 'em--Rosemary's the most beguilin' flibbertigibbet, and I can't wait to see you bein' a kind of an elderly grandmother to her. —  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
  • You look to me like a flibbertigibbet,--if you know what that is Yes, and I am one, thank you, Uncle Jeff," and Alicia laughed gaily, not at all abashed at her uncle's remark These are my two friends from Berwick, uncle," said Bernice, introducing them. —  Two Little Women on a Holiday
  • You look to me like a flibbertigibbet, -- if you know what that is. " —  Two Little Women on a Holiday
  • You'll be insane about 'em -- Rosemary's the most beguilin 'flibbertigibbet, and I can't wait to see you bein' a kind of an elderly grandmother to her. —  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
 

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