Flibbertigibbet

The word is fun to say and sounds so much more polite than calling someone flighty or an airhead. Think about it. Doesn’t flibbertigibbet just sound like what it means? I believe if you called someone who had never heard the word a flibbertigibbet without explanation, she or he would know precisely what it meant.

I felt like such a flibbertigibbet when I put my income tax return into the trash can and mailed my banana peel.

Diana