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flappity en · INTJ

Etymology

From flap + -ity.

Meanings

  1. Nonce variation of the word flap, usually indicating a series of small or ineffective flaps.
    • ... I was mindful of the hissings and shoutings coming from the cave and thought an interesting foreign gentleman would be a good distraction for them, even if he did land up going flappity, flappity down the mountain on little webbed feet. 2004, Nelson Mandela, editor, Favorite African Folktales, page 216:
    • Jest then in come Mrs. Pelto with one of them French sisters with the flappity caps, the same as 'ad been in the mornin', and come from the 'Ospital. 1878, Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown at the Paris exhibition, page 108:
    • ‘Flappity, flappity, flappity,’ the thin man sang. ‘Cut it out,’ Grissom said. 1991, Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands, page 66: