英语词汇flibbertigibbety的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	flibbertigibbety
词源	flibbertigibbety. Silly restless actions are called flibbertigib- bety after Flibbertigibbet, one of the five fiends who possessed “poor Tom” in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Shakespeare borrowed the character and his name from an earlier work.
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