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Just discovered 'Flibbertigibbet'!

It is quite fascinating to observe the survival, resurrection in some sense, of archaic terms such as 'Flibbertigibbet'. The etymology traces back to the 15th century and it's a composite of 'flipperty-', a dialectal term used to indicate frivolousness, and the word '-gibbet', akin to 'gibber', meaning to babble or …
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