flippant

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• UK, US: /ˈflɪp.ənt/
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• CMU ARPABET: F L IH1 P AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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 from words in -ant.

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: непочтителен (nepočtitelen) — lacking respect
• Chinese Mandarin: 輕浮 /轻浮 (qīngfú) — lacking respect
• Chinese Mandarin: 輕佻 /轻佻 (qīngtiāo) — lacking respect
• Chinese Mandarin: 無禮 /无礼 (wúlǐ) — lacking respect
• Czech: neomalený — lacking respect
• Czech: lehkovážný — lacking respect
• Dutch: oneerbiedig — lacking respect
• Dutch: spottend — lacking respect
• Esperanto: impertinenta — lacking respect
• Finnish: epäkunnioittava — lacking respect
• Finnish: epäasiallinen — lacking respect
• French: désinvolte — lacking respect
• French: cavalier — lacking respect
• German: schnodderig — lacking respect
• German: vorlaut — lacking respect
• German: frech — lacking respect
• German: oberflächlich — lacking respect
• German: leichtfertig — lacking respect
• German: mit fehlender Ernsthaftigkeit — lacking respect
• Hungarian: pimasz — lacking respect
• Hungarian: nyegle — lacking respect
• Hungarian: pikírt — lacking respect
• Hungarian: pökhendi — lacking respect
• Icelandic: virðingarlaus — lacking respect
• Italian: impertinente — lacking respect
• Italian: disinvolto — lacking respect
• Italian: faceto — lacking respect
• Italian: frivolo — lacking respect
• Italian: irriverente — lacking respect
• Italian: sapientone — lacking respect
• Italian: fanfarone — lacking respect
• Italian: spaccone — lacking respect
• Italian: gradasso — lacking respect
• Japanese: ぶしつけな (bushitsuke-na) — lacking respect
• Japanese: 生意気な (namaiki-na) — lacking respect
• Macedonian: др́зок (dŕzok) — lacking respect
• Macedonian: несерио́зен (neseriózen) — lacking respect
• Macedonian: на́хален (náhalen) — lacking respect
• Macedonian: за́качлив (zákačliv) — lacking respect
• Māori: ngahangaha — lacking respect
• Norwegian: eplekjekk — lacking respect
• Norwegian: flåset — lacking respect
• Norwegian: flåsete — lacking respect
• Polish: impertynencki — lacking respect
• Portuguese: insolente — lacking respect
• Portuguese: impertinente — lacking respect
• Russian: де́рзкий (dérzkij) — lacking respect
• Russian: на́глый (náglyj) — lacking respect
• Russian: наха́льный (naxálʹnyj) — lacking respect
• Russian: неуважительный (neuvažitelʹnyj) — lacking respect
• Spanish: fresco — lacking respect
• Spanish: poco serio — lacking respect
• Swedish: oseriös — lacking respect