flippant

== English == === Etymology === 1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand (“prattling, babbling, glib”), present participle of flip (“to babble”), of North Germanic origin. Cognate with Icelandic fleipa (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal flepa (“to talk nonsense”). Alteration of -and suffix (a variant of the participial -ing) to -ant probably due to influence from words in -ant. === Pronunciation === (US, UK) IPA(key): /ˈflɪp.ənt/ === Adjective === flippant (comparative more flippant, superlative most flippant) Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert. (archaic) Loquacious; speaking with ease and rapidity. November 5, 1673, Isaac Barrow, sermon on the Gunpowder Treason It becometh good men, in such cases, to be pleasantly flippant and free in their speech. (chiefly dialectal) Nimble; limber. ==== Synonyms ==== See also Thesaurus:cheeky ==== Antonyms ==== serious ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== irreverent pert facetious frivolous ==== Further reading ==== “flippant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “flippant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fli.pɑ̃/ === Adjective === flippant (feminine flippante, masculine plural flippants, feminine plural flippantes) (Europe, informal) Surprising (Europe, informal) Worrying; scary === Participle === flippant present participle of flipper === Further reading === “flippant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012