flippant

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adjective

Comparative

more flippant

Superlative

most flippant

1.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
2.
(archaic)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.
3.
(dialectal)(chiefly dialectal) Nimble; limber.

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serious

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1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand (prattling, babbling, glib), present participle of flip (to babble), of - origin. Cognate with fleipa, Swedish dialectal flepa (to talk nonsense). Alteration of -and suffix (a variant of the participial -ing) to -ant probably due to influence from words in -ant.