| \FLIB-er-tee-jib-it\ | noun
1. Archaic. a gossip.
2. a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. | | Quotes | You're a bit of a flibbertigibbet, and apt to get bored with things.
-- Irene Rathbone, We That Were Young, 1932 | | Origin | | Flibbertigibbet is of obscure origin, but is thought have been formed as an imitative representation of the sound of chatter or gossip. It entered English in the late 1400s. | |
