liripoops

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
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
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
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
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