flapper
Meaning of flapper
noun
(in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behaviour.
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’).
Information about flapper
- It is a name.
- The plural form of flapper is: flappers.
- Languages in which flapper is used:
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Hyphenation of flapper
flap-per
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- flapper is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with flapper
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