frippet

plural frippets

1. archaiccountablehumorousslanguncountableA frivolous or showy young woman.

   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

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   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 me with grand understanding eyes.

   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, N.Y.: Viking Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11

   ‘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

   Thus from a literary point of view, I’m happy to see movies out front, absorbing the finest energies of the voyeurs and semi‐voyeurs. 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, →OCLC

   I need a new frippet asap, cos my old one dumped me. It's kind of a long story, but it all ended with a bottle of vodka and a big fight.

   1995 March 10, Jeffrey Antonelli, quoting Tolstoy Petr, “Frippet Wanted”, in alt.romance (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Jul 2026

   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 on 09 Jul 2026