Flibbertigibbet

( "Flibbertigibbet"), and scrambled through the portrait hole into the common room.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999

For Faith stopped at the shoemaker's house every day on her way home from school to teach Louise; and "Flibbertigibbet," as her father generally called her, was making good progress.

A Little Maid of Ticonderoga Alice Turner Curtis 1912

"Flibbertigibbet" is one of many incarnations of the Middle English word

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day 2009

"Flibbertigibbet" as the nickname of an impish urchin in the novel

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day 2009

“So thou hast betrayed me, Flibbertigibbet?” said the smith; “it shall be the worse for thee!”

Kenilworth 2004

This was Dickie Sludge, or Flibbertigibbet, who, like the imp whose name he bore, and whom he had been accoutred in order to resemble, seemed to be ever at the ear of those who thought least of him.

Kenilworth 2004

Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women.

King Lear 2004

“It is even so,” said Wayland Smith, “the best friends must part, Flibbertigibbet; but thou, my boy, art the only thing in the Vale of Whitehorse which I shall regret to leave behind me.”

Kenilworth 2004

This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the poor creature of earth.

King Lear 2004

“Then how canst thou love it, Flibbertigibbet?” said

Kenilworth 2004