What the hell is a flibbertijibbet?

fishwrapper · May 3, 2008

Fenian_Bastard said:

Bubbler said:

It's William Randolph Hearst's pet name for his lover's vagina.
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Now THAT'S obscure.
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It took me two days. I got it!

Zoom Zoom Zoom · May 3, 2008

jgmacg said:

To CNN's and/or Ms. Taylor's discredit, it's actually spelled with a 'g'.

flibbertigibbet

a silly, flighty person;

Flibbertigibbet

Flibbertigibbet may refer to two separate cultural figures:

In Anglo-Saxon mythology Flibbertigibbet is apprentice to Wayland Smith[1], who becomes exasperated with his behaviour and throws him down a hill, where he transforms into a stone.

In Shakespeare he is one of the five fiends that possessed 'poor Tom' in King Lear (IV, i (1605)). Shakespeare got the name from Samuel Harsnet's Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603), where one reads of 40 fiends, which Jesuits cast out and among which was Fliberdigibbet, a name that had been previously used by Latimer and others for a mischievous gossip. Elsewhere the name is apparently a synonym for Puck. Its origin is in a meaningless representation of chattering.[2]

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Glad there's at least one literate poster on this board.

fishwrapper · May 3, 2008

Glad to see the Ranks of the Pretentious grew by one.

Bubbler · May 3, 2008

"Flibbertigibbet"

Write-brained · May 3, 2008

fishwrapper said:

Fenian_Bastard said:

Bubbler said:

It's William Randolph Hearst's pet name for his lover's vagina.
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Now THAT'S obscure.
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It took me two days. I got it!
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I'm confused. I thought it was 'rosebud.'

farmerjerome · May 3, 2008

Isn't it a thingy?

Fenian_Bastard · May 4, 2008

HC said:

Fenian_Bastard said:

"How do you find a word that means Maria
"A flibbertigibbbet, a will-o-the-wisp, a clown."

I thought I'd post the ref from the Sound Of Music before HC got around to it.
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I appreciate your efforts on my behalf, sir.
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Hey, you actually had to sing it.

Baron Scicluna · May 4, 2008

I thought it had something to do with 1.21 jiggouwatts.

HC · May 4, 2008

Fenian_Bastard said:

HC said:

Fenian_Bastard said:

"How do you find a word that means Maria
"A flibbertigibbbet, a will-o-the-wisp, a clown."

I thought I'd post the ref from the Sound Of Music before HC got around to it.
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I appreciate your efforts on my behalf, sir.
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Hey, you actually had to sing it.
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And will again soon. Eight times a week!

Fenian_Bastard · May 4, 2008

HC said:

Fenian_Bastard said:

HC said:

Fenian_Bastard said:

"How do you find a word that means Maria
"A flibbertigibbbet, a will-o-the-wisp, a clown."

I thought I'd post the ref from the Sound Of Music before HC got around to it.
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I appreciate your efforts on my behalf, sir.
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Hey, you actually had to sing it.
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And will again soon. Eight times a week!
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As long as you don't have to sing, well, you know....

CentralIllinoisan · May 4, 2008

Liz Taylor is Rosebud?

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