flibberty-gibbet

English

Noun

flibberty-gibbet (plural flibberty-gibbets)

1. Alternative spelling of flibbertigibbet
   • 1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 63:

     For a student of such a serious subject as literature that lad is the most incorrigible flibberty-gibbet.