söndag 3 maj 2009

Dagens glosa

Flibbertigibbet
(FLIB-uhr-tee-jib-it) noun

Someone who is regarded as flighty, scatterbrained, and talkative.

[Apparently from the imitation of the sound of idle chatter.]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=flibbertigibbet

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

"But [Lesley Dormen] is hardly a flibbertigibbet. 'I am the opposite of
flighty,' she said."
Celia Barbour; An Author Discovers; The New York Times; Apr 8, 2007.

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