liripoop

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  1. Same as liripipium.
  2. A degree of learning or knowledge worthy the wearer of a liripoop; acuteness; smartness; a smart trick. [Slang.] Thou maist bee skilled in thy logick, but not in thy lerypoope. Lyly, Sapho and Phao, i. 3. I will teach thee thy lyrripups after another fashion than to be thus malpertlie cocking and billing with me that am thy gouernour. Stanihurst, Descrip. of Ireland, vi.
  3. A silly person: as, “a young lirrypoop,” Beau. and Fl. [Slang.]

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  1. Also lirripoop, lirrypoop; in defs. 2, 3, practically an independent word, of a slang nature, and subject to arbitrary variation, as lerripoop, lerripoope, lyrripup, etc.; from Old French liripipion, liripion, lirippion, a graduate's hood, from Middle Latin liripipium, a graduate's hood: see liripipium.
 

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