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Word: Flapper
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century (originally in the sense ‘teenage girl’): perhaps from the noun flap in the dialect sense ‘newly fledged wild duck or partridge’ (or ‘woman of loose character’)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈflapə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behaviour.
Short Definition:fashionable young woman of 1920s
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