flappers
Meaning of flappers
plural 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 flappers
- It is a name.
- The singular form of flappers is: flapper.
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Hyphenation of flappers
flap-pers
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- flappers is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with flappers
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