liripoop

Noun

liripoop (plural liripoops)

1. (obsolete) A pendent part of the old clerical tippet.
   • So, so, I have my lerrepoop already.1647, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Wit at Severall Weapons
   • The hood and liripoop (the long tail or tippet of the hood) was worn by the laity of both sexes as well as by the clergy.1861, Charles MacFarlane, The comprehensive history of England, page 202
2. (obsolete) A tippet; a scarf; worn also by doctors, learned men, etc.
   • MASTER Janotus , with his hair cut round as a dish, his Liripoop on his head , after the old fashion; and having sufficiently antidoted his stomach with kitchen-cordials, and holy water of the cellar, conveyed himself to the lodging of Gargantua, driving before him three red muzzled beadles, and...1807, François Rabelais, Works - Volume 1, page 194
   • Moreover, we forbid all the above persons to use beyond the College any mantles or liripoops of fine linen or woollen, except on the attack of some disease, or on leave obtained from the President or Vice-President, for urgent reason;1843, The Foundation Statutes of Bishop Fox for Corpus Christi, page 139
3. (obsolete) acuteness; smartness; knowledge.
   • Heere was a wily wench had her liripoop without book, she was not to seeke in her knackes and shifts: such are all women, each of them hath a cloke for the raine, and can bleare her husbands eies as she list.1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortvnate Traveller
   • There's a girl who knows her lirripoop.1598, John Lyly, Mother Bombie
4. (obsolete) One's proper business or prescribed role.
   • For seeing you make me your judge, I trow, I shall teach you both your liripoop to know.156?, Ulpian Fulwell, Like Will to Like
   • I will teach thee thy lyrripups.1577, Raphaell Holinshed; Richarde Stanyhurst [i.e., Richard Stanihurst], “The Historie of Irelande […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I...
5. (obsolete) A silly person.
   • I thought I would ask him questions fast enough and directly enough to force from him a positive answer of “yes” or “no” —a thing which it is exceedingly difficult to obtain in the piney-woods—but I found he was no liripoop.1872, Stephen Powers, Afoot and Alone, page 28
   • Jones, however, for his part, is sometimes equally inane in criticising Smith, who holds that millions of Germans have now been killed off, that the copper has all been melted down, and that the occupation of Warsaw is the last desperate resort of the Kaiser—or, rather, of "the imperial gambler"...August 14, 1915, “Optimists and Asses”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume 120, number 3120