flibbertigibbet
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Salinger-like disavowals of public life and the simmering cult interest of writers and scholars are typically the province of Serious Literary Figures, not flibbertigibbets and fun L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2019
Surrounded by doctors, nurses, and patients with a tendency to behave like flibbertigibbets, Didi emanates common sense and compassion, aware enough to roll her eyes but empathic enough to try her best.
From Slate • Nov. 22, 2013
Pixies and flibbertigibbets haunt the budding woods: Puck and his train of midgets are busy in town and country.”
From The Guardian • May 21, 2012
So much for the flibbertigibbets and will-o’-the-wisps of yore.
From Washington Post
At least, that’s the way Onofre himself liked to tell the story when he had an audience of children and other gullible creatures who believed in werewolves, flibbertigibbets, and miracles.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Vocabulary lists containing flibbertigibbet
Charlotte's Web
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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The Graveyard Book
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