Flippant Definition
flĭpənt
adjective
Glib; talkative.
Webster's New World
Frivolous and disrespectful; saucy; impertinent.
Webster's New World
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
Wiktionary
(archaic) Glib; speaking with ease and rapidity.
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Origin of Flippant
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1595, from Northern English dialectal flippand (“prattling, babbling, glib”), present participle of flip (“to babble”), of North Germanic origin. Cognate with Icelandic fleipa (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal flepa (“to talk nonsense”). Alteration of -and suffix (a variant of the participial -ing) to -ant probably due to influence of words in -ant.
From Wiktionary
Probably from flip
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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