flappity
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Interjection
[edit]flappity
- Nonce variation of the word flap, usually indicating a series of small or ineffective flaps.
- 1878, Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown at the Paris exhibition, page 108:
- Jest then in come Mrs. Pelto with one of them French sisters with the flappity caps, the same as 'ad been in the mornin', and come from the 'Ospital.
- 1991, Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands, page 66:
- ‘Flappity, flappity, flappity,’ the thin man sang. ‘Cut it out,’ Grissom said.
- 2004, Nelson Mandela, editor, Favorite African Folktales, page 216:
- ... I was mindful of the hissings and shoutings coming from the cave and thought an interesting foreign gentleman would be a good distraction for them, even if he did land up going flappity, flappity down the mountain on little webbed feet.