frippet

frippet noun: a frivolous or showy young woman.

Noun

frippet (countable and uncountable, plural frippets)

(archaic, humorous, slang) A frivolous or showy young woman.
- Look at it, Phyllis Maud. There are the light, tripping syllables of ‘Phyllis’ suggesting the bright, sweet, merry creature, and there is the sonorous dignity of Maud which tells the girl will have a soul – she will not be a frippet – I could read [Percy Bysshe] Shelley to her and she would look at...1908 May 13, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “To Blanche Jennings, from Lynn Croft, Eastwood, 13 May 1908”, in Harry T. Moore, editor, The Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence […], volume 1, New York...
- ‘What about Clara Breese? You told me she was all right.’ ‘Quite a nice bit of frippet. But too young for me. I like a mature woman.’1971, Douglas Clark, chapter 6, in Sick to Death, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, →ISBN, page 123

If X movies and R movies are peeled away, the boys will be back at the bookstall, baying for frippet (see Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary for definition and nifty surprise).1973 August 5, Wilfrid Sheed, “The Good Word: Dirty Business”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN...
Get this one, right ... shagged a frippet the other night and then ate some chips, yeah ... huhuhuh!!!1995 March 3, Ryan Giggs, “frippet”, in alt.dumpster (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Jul 2026:
I need a new frippet asap, cos my old one dumped me.1995 March 10, Jeffrey Antonelli, quoting Tolstoy Petr, “Frippet Wanted”, in alt.romance (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Jul...
Annette, your farraginous bavardage, bedizened as it is with sesquipedalianities, mark you as a lexiphanic frippet.1996 December 12, Kenneth Alexander Finlayson, “ATXF FLAMEWAR II: BLITZKRIEG BOP!!”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet), archived from the original...

plural	frippets

Unknown. Perhaps from flibbertigibbet.

What does frippet mean?: Frippet means a frivolous or showy young woman.
How do you use frippet in a sentence?: If X movies and R movies are peeled away, the boys will be back at the bookstall, baying for frippet (see Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary for definition and nifty surprise).
What part of speech is frippet?: Frippet is a noun.
What is the plural of frippet?: The plural of frippet is frippets.

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