flibbertigibbet

noun

ˌfli-bər-tē-ˈji-bət How to pronounce flibbertigibbet (audio)
Definition of flibbertigibbetnext
as in scatterbrain
a silly flighty person forced to endure a long flight with a flibbertigibbet as a seat companion

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Recent Examples of flibbertigibbet Winnie, on the other hand, is a flibbertigibbet of stream-of-consciousness. — Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025 Projects about Monroe have handled her personal life to varying degrees of success, often leaning into her flibbertigibbet persona, her struggles with addiction, and the paradox of her oozing sexuality and her little girl brokenness. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023 Miranda Hart is touching as the flibbertigibbet Miss Bates, whom Emma thoughtlessly mocks. — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2020 Instead of acting cool and sophisticated our narrator prattled like a flibbertigibbet. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018 And never mind that its mother is a flibbertigibbet who has no business having a baby. — Matt Giles, Longreads, 29 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flibbertigibbet
  1. ditz
  2. silly
  3. fool
  4. cuckoo
  5. goose
Noun
  • There’s a tramp, a ditz, a bad boss, a hippie, a by-the-book good girl.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Rather than stay pigeonholed as a ditz, Simpson (who just released new music for the first time in 15 years) went on to launch her own fashion brand, which hit $1 billion in sales in 2015 and is still going strong today.
    — EW Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of ditz
Noun
  • The glamorous Emmy winner known for Loewe red-carpet looks and starring on prestige dramedy The Bear is returning to full-bore silly in order to play America’s favorite beagle.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026
  • It was shot in portrait because it was shot in Instagram by and for a woman who was losing her mind in quarantine and had fully let the sillies take the wheel.
    — Ego Nwodim, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
Definition of silly
Noun
  • But don’t let the cute style fool you—this look is super practical, too.
    — Kayla Becker, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026
  • However, reinventing Beethoven at the Bowl, doing so following Dudamel and with little rehearsal time, could easily become a fool’s errand.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of fool
Noun
  • But a cuckoo premise isn’t enough to hang a film on, apparently.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
  • One experiment, conducted in England, looked at how people understand the diminishment of ordinary bird species like the common cuckoo and the house sparrow.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of cuckoo
Noun
  • Their escapade leads not only to the creation of their island paradise, Moonrise Kingdom, but a humorous wild goose chase between Suzy’s parents, Sam’s Scout troop, and the island police chief.
    — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 29 Aug. 2026
  • At the exhibition’s entrance is a lamina, a part-goose, part-woman mask of Basque tradition, made by contemporary Owantshoozi studio designers.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of goose

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