flipper-de-flappern.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
(See quot. 1847).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun]
noise?a1400
clattera1500
Babela1529
burlinga1533
burle1563
tintamarre1567
coil1582
flipper-de-flapper1640
clutter1655
Babel sound1710
jargon1711
charivari1735
oratorio?1737
hubbub1779
callithump1843
1640 King & poore North. Man 36 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 307 I nere saw such a flipper de flapper before.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Flipper-de-flapper, noise and confusion caused by show. Sussex.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1640- none of your funeral
- none of your our funeral
- none other boot
- none otherwise
- none so deaf as those who won't hear
- none so dusty
- none such
- none the wiser
- none too
- none-bell
- none-gate
- none-gates
- none-kin
- none-kins
- none-so-pretties
- none-so-pretty
- none-so-pretty tape
- nose to tail
- nose trick
- nose tube
- nose ulcer
- nose vein
- nose weight
- nose wheel
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