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- noun derogatory a
feather-brained orstupid person (especially a woman)
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Examples
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Call me a feather-brain but raising chickens is not much different than parenting.
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That apart, if I knew my fair feather-brain, she'd be spending the dibs-my dibs-like a drunk duke on his birthday.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Call me a feather-brain but raising chickens is not much different than parenting.
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That apart, if I knew my fair feather-brain, she'd be spending the dibs-my dibs-like a drunk duke on his birthday.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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That apart, if I knew my fair feather-brain, she'd be spending the dibs-my dibs-like a drunk duke on his birthday.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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"We are rid of that chattering feather-brain; but, before everything, tell me when you will be relieved."
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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Don't take any notice of our little feather-brain, Manson.
The Servant in the House Charles Rann Kennedy 1910
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Yet this was only just a passing thought, for in reality he would on no account have wished to exchange his own spiritual tortures for the feather-brain existence of a Lialia.
Sanine Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 1902
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He despises her as a frivolous feather-brain at first, but soon falls under the spell.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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And meanwhile the artists see multiplying before them their _bête-noire_, the _bourgeois_, the Philistine, the presumptuous ignoramus, the quack who plays at science, and the feather-brain who thinks himself the equal of the intelligent.
Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885
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