Too many a minister of to-day is, intellectually, something of a flibbertigibbet.

But they are all flibbertigibbets, every one of them.

His was a little Flibbertigibbet of a face, already lined with the practice of mimicry; and there was in it a very attractive blending of tenderness and humour.

But I didn't have to call in Flibbertigibbet.

no good is unaccompanied by evil; hideously deformed dwarfs haunt the streets and promenades of the good town, and the eye of the observer, after having rested with complacency on the round and well-turned form of the smart soubrette, reverts with horror to the miserable Flibbertigibbets which abound in a frightful proportion to the whole population.

It was in this cave that Scott made Flibbertigibbet play tricks on Tressilian.

"I was forced to fly from a wicked Flibbertigibbet who seeks to torment me.

Then Czar, who had come with me to hide from the Flibbertigibbet in the house, left me.

You'll be insane about 'emRosemary's the most beguilin' flibbertigibbet, and I can't wait to see you bein' a kind of an elderly grandmother to her.

There are certain women who are a form of insurance to a man; and Anne gave a poise and solidity to Julian's presentation of himself which his own flibbertigibbet manner made particularly necessary.