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
Duvall is a big reason why: All the film’s insights into the slipperiness of identity are there in her casually virtuosic, veritable dual performance, in which a funny flibbertigibbet loses hold of herself as the world around seems to splinter into something frighteningly new.
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A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024
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
The thought leader of the hippie girls is played by that avatar of feminine passive-aggressive flibbertigibbet solipsism, Lena Dunham, the polar opposite of the no-nonsense, two-fisted, self-contained, masculine ideal represented by Cliff.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
Instead of acting cool and sophisticated our narrator prattled like a flibbertigibbet.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
Warning: The book has my three-year-old calling her grandmother a flibbertigibbet.
—Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2017
And never mind that its mother is a flibbertigibbet who has no business having a baby.
—Matt Giles, Longreads, 29 Sep. 2017
A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 19 July 2024
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
The thought leader of the hippie girls is played by that avatar of feminine passive-aggressive flibbertigibbet solipsism, Lena Dunham, the polar opposite of the no-nonsense, two-fisted, self-contained, masculine ideal represented by Cliff.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
Instead of acting cool and sophisticated our narrator prattled like a flibbertigibbet.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
Warning: The book has my three-year-old calling her grandmother a flibbertigibbet.
—Megan Gambino, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2017
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
Noun
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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
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Besides offering a cash prize of up to $250,000, the show can help change perception of a villain or a ditz and be a springboard for their next casting.—
Shivani Gonzalez,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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Some more sillies from last night’s GRAMMY nominees reception.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In a signature segment, the Joke Wall, performers in mod regalia poked their heads out of holes in a set, like cuckoos emerging from a clock, and spouted one-liners.—
Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Egg laying behavior of common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus): Data based on field video-recordings The New York Academy of Sciences.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Holding out hope for Hannah’s return, or Janine’s liberation, or… anything, really, by this point in the Hulu drama’s final run can feel like a fool’s errand.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
8 Apr. 2025
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That said, sense-making is a fool’s errand in this era.—
Damon Beres,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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It’s not known what caused the goose to leave Wrigley.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2025
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For one thing, the methods for growing and manipulating the embryonic precursors of avian sperm and eggs in a lab setting have been developed for only two birds: the chicken and, recently, the goose.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That’s the pumping-iron term for somebody who’s kind of a nitwit.—
Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
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The plot involves risqué photos of someone in the royal family being used as collateral, and poor Terry and his nitwit crew were tricked into trying to steal these from the bank instead of money.—
Mike Ryan,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
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