flibbertigibbet old-fashioned, informal

Thought you were nothing but a pretty flibbertigibbet when Hal married you.

"Your daughter's a flibbertigibbet, ma'am, I'll never get used to it."

On the other hand, perhaps I was simply a flibbertigibbet who sooner or later would acquire an attention span and a sewing kit.

But she is hardly a flibbertigibbet.

Flibbertigibbet is a Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person, usually a young woman.

"It was easy to get fond of the boy," said Cadfael, "but dangerous, with such a flibbertigibbet.

This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet.

Richard Nelson's "Life Sentences" examines the relationship between a dolt and a flibbertigibbet.

Eventually Wayland threw Flibbertigibbet down the hill and into a valley, where he transformed into a stone.

When he is thrown out of games for flibbertigibbet behavior, he has been known to sneak back into the dugout wearing a mustache-and-glasses disguise.

"Me, the long-suffering husband," he said, "seems to utter only lines that give Gracie, the nutty flibbertigibbet, a chance to say something crazy.

"Regular flibbertigibbet, she was.

Still the perfect recession pick-me-up, the sweetly smiling, potty-mouthed divorcée worked more of her flibbertigibbet magic.

He is the flibbertigibbet to Torre's Zen.

According to the tale, Flibbertigibbet was apprentice to Wayland the Smith, and greatly exasperated his master.

Scott associates his Flibbertigibbet character in Kenilworth with Wayland Smith.

They passed the security trolls, gave the Fat Lady the password ("Flibbertigibbet"), and scrambled through the portrait hole into the common room.

"I'd love to hang around and discuss this flibbertigibbet of a police chief, but I need to go search for Adele Wockermann."

As we read the correspondence we seem to see Dorothy growing out of the gushing flibbertigibbet that she was in 1909 into a person altogether more substantial.

He was a lean, nervous flibbertigibbet of a man, with something the look of an actor, and something the look of a horse-jockey.

No spindle-legged, school teaching flibbertigibbet is good enough for Ian McCloud." '