Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Flippant

Flippant , adjective

[Prov. English flip to move nimbly; compare Welsh llipa soft, limber, pliant, or Icelandic fleipa to babble, prattle. Compare Flip, Fillip, Flap, Flipper.]

1.
Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative.
It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. — Barrow
2.
Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsiderate; pert; petulant.
Flippant epilogues. — Thomson
To put flippant scorn to the blush. — I. Taylor
A sort of flippant, vain discourse. — Burke

Flippant , noun

A flippant person. [Rare] — Tennyson