Flip"pant (?), a. [Prov. E. flip to move nimbly; cf. W. llipa soft, limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. Flip, Fillip, Flap, Flipper.]
1.
Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
Barrow.
2.
Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsederate; pert; petulant.
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Flippant epilogous."
Thomson.
To put flippant scorn to the blush.
I. Taylor.
A sort of flippant, vain discourse.
Burke.
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Flip"pant, n.
A flippant person.
[R.]
Tennyson.
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