fliaum (fliam)

A scorpænoid fish, Sebas tichthys pinniger, with about 50 scales on the lateral line, low cranial ridges, and of a red color. It reaches a length of about 2 feet, and is abundant along the Californian coast. Flibberdigibbet, Flibbertigibbet (flib'er-di-, flib'er-ti-jibet), n. [Early mod. E. fliberdigibet; appar. mere jargon: see flibbergib.] 1. The name given to a fiend. Frate ret to, Fliberdigibet , Hoberdidance, To cob at to, were four devils of the round or morice: these four had forty a istants under them, as themselves do confe e. Harsnet , Popish Impostures, This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet ; he begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak ., Lear, iii. 4. Hence-2. [1. c.] An imp; an impish-looking person; a restle , flighty person. He was a lean, nervous flibbertigibbet of a man, with something the look of an actor, and something the look of a horse jockey. R. L. Stevens on , Inland Voyage, p. 78. flibbergib, flibbergibber (flib'er-jib, -jib-er), n. [Appar. mere jargon (see flibbergibbet ), but the latter part may allude to gibber, gibberish. Cf. flibbergibbet.] A glib or oily talker; a lying knave; a sycophant. [Old and prov. Eng.] And when these flatterers and tibbergibbes another day shall come and claw you by the back, your grace may an swer them thus, Latimer , Sermons, fol. 39. flibbergibbett (flib'er-jib-et), n. [Early mod. E. flibergibet, ficbergibet , flebergebet ; appar. mere jargon: see flibbergib , Flibberdigibbet .] An imp; an impish-looking person; a flighty person. Thou Flebergibet , Flebergibet , thou wretch! Wot'st thou whereto last part of that word doth stretch? J. Heywood, Epigrams. Coquette,... a cocket, a tatling housewife, a titifill, a flebergebit . Cotgrave. See Flibberdigibbet . Flibbertigibbet, n. flibotet, n. See fly - boat. flic-flac (flik'flak), n. [F., meant to be imitative of the sound of repeated blows. Cf. flick1, flack, tit - tat, pit - pat.] A repeated noise made by blows. Thackeray.