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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLIPPANT

a.[L. labor, to slide or slip, and to liber, free. ] 1. Of smoother, fluent and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
2. Pert; petulant; waggish.
Away with flippant epilogues.

 

FLIPPANTLY

adv. Fluently; with ease and volubility of speech.

 

FLIPPANTNESS

n.fluency of speech; volubility of tongue; flippancy. [This is not a low, vulgar word, but well authorized and peculiarly expressive. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FLIPPANT

Flip "pant, a. Etym: [Prov. E. flip to move nimbly; cf. W. llipa soft, limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. Flip, Fillip, Flap, Flipper. ]

 

1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. Barrow.

 

2. Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsederate; pert; petulant. "Flippant epilogous." Thomson. To put flippant scorn to the blush. I. Taylor. A sort of flippant, vain discourse. Burke.

 

FLIPPANT

FLIPPANT Flip "pant, n.

 

Defn: A flippant person. [R.] Tennyson.

 

FLIPPANTLY

FLIPPANTLY Flip "pant *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a flippant manner.

 

FLIPPANTNESS

FLIPPANTNESS Flip "pant *ness, n.

 

Defn: State or quality of being flippant.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

flippant

flip pant |ˈflipənt ˈflɪpənt | ▶adjective not showing a serious or respectful attitude: a flippant remark. DERIVATIVES flip pant ly adverb ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from flip 1 + -ant, perhaps on the pattern of heraldic terms such as couchant and rampant. Early senses included ‘nimble ’ and ‘talkative, ’ hence ‘playful, ’ giving rise to the current use ‘lacking seriousness. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

flippant

flip |pant |ˈflɪp (ə )nt | ▶adjective not showing a serious or respectful attitude: a flippant remark. DERIVATIVES flippantly adverb ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from flip 1 + -ant, perhaps on the pattern of heraldic terms such as couchant and rampant. Early senses included ‘nimble ’ and ‘talkative ’, hence ‘playful ’, giving rise to the current use ‘lacking seriousness ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

flippant

flippant adjective a flippant remark: frivolous, facetious, tongue-in-cheek; disrespectful, irreverent, cheeky, impudent, impertinent; informal flip, waggish. ANTONYMS serious, respectful.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

flippant

flippant adjective a flippant remark: frivolous, superficial, shallow, glib, thoughtless, carefree, irresponsible, insouciant, offhand; disrespectful, irreverent, facetious, cheeky, pert, overfamiliar, impudent, impertinent; informal flip; Brit. informal saucy; N. Amer. informal sassy. ANTONYMS serious; respectful.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

flippant

flip pant /flɪ́p (ə )nt /形容詞 ｟非難して ｠〈人 発言などが 〉ふざけた, 不まじめな .～ly 副詞