flippant

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLIP'PANT, adjective [Latin labor, to slide or slip, and to liber, free.] 1. Of smoother, fluent and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. 2. Pert; petulant; waggish. Away with flippant epilogues.
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