LekhoriLekhoriShowing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
a sort of flippant, vain discourse
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.
Nimble; limber.
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”), ...
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