FICKLE, FICKLENESS
ADJECTIVES
► BINGLE-BANGLE fickle, vacillating, irresolute → 1825 Eng. dial.
► BRICKLE changeable, uncertain; fickle, not trustworthy → 1872 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► CAZZELTY precarious, risky, uncertain; unreliable, fickle, changeable → 1873 Eng. dial.
► FANCICAL ► FANCICLE ► FANSICLE fanciful, faddy, capricious, fickle → 1671 rare exc. Eng. dial.
► FICKLEDY fickle → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FRIVOL fickle, unreliable → 1488 chiefly Sc., obs.
► GIDDISH giddy, fickle, foolish → 1566 obs.
► HEBDOMADAL changing every week; fickle, changeable → 1796
► KITTLE difficult to deal with, esp. because touchy, obstinate, or intractable; fickle, capricious → Sc.
► MOONISH influenced by the moon; acting as if under the moon’s influence; changeable, fickle, flighty, whimsical, capricious, variable → c1407 obs.
► MUABLE changeable, variable; fickle; also, of a ship: unsteady → a1393 obs.
► MULTIVOLENT having many different desires, wishes, etc.; changeable, fickle, vacillating → 1656 obs.
► MUTABLE inconstant in mind, will, or disposition; fickle; variable → c1425 chiefly literary & poetic usage
► SHITTLE-WITTED fickle, flighty, unstable, unsteady → 1448 obs.
► SKITTISH fickle, inconstant, changeable; tricky, difficult to deal with or manage → 1601
► SOMETIMESY fickle, moody, inconsistent; unstable, unpredictable → 1972 Amer. dial.
► SOMETIMEY fickle, moody, inconsistent; unstable, unpredictable → 1905 Amer. dial.
► STRUMPET promiscuous, unfaithful, fickle → 1382
► TICKLISH unstable, unsteady, unsettled, uncertain, fickle → 1606
► VARIANT of persons: changeful in disposition or purpose; inconstant, fickle → c1386
► VARIOUS of persons: changeable in character; inconstant, unstable; fickle → 1636 obs.
► VERSATILE of persons: fickle, inconstant → 1682
► VOLAGE giddy, foolish; fickle, inconstant, inconsiderate → a1366
► WEATHERCOCKY fickle, changeable, inconstant → 1886
► WHIFFLE-MINDED fickle; vacillating, undecided → 1844 Amer. dial.
NOUNS
► FEATHERINESS lightness, fickleness, capriciousness → 1689
► MUTABILITY disposition to change; variableness, inconstancy, fickleness → a1425 chiefly literary & poetic usage
► MUTATION changeableness, fickleness; inconstancy of character → a1542 obs.
► VARIETY tendency to change; fickleness; change of purpose or plans → a1548 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► CHANGING-PIECE a term of contempt for one who is fickle or changeable → 17C obs.
► GIG a flighty or fickle woman → 17C sl.
► GILLIAN-FLIRT a fickle, flirtatious, or sexually promiscuous woman or girl → 1593
► GILLIE ► GILLY a fickle, giddy, flirtatious, loose, or wanton young woman → a1529 obs. exc. Sc.
► GIPSIE ► GIPSY ► GYPSY a term of contempt for a woman, as being cunning, deceitful, fickle, or the like; in more recent use merely playful, and applied esp. to a brunette; a thoughtless, giddy girl; sometimes used playfully as a term of endearment → 1632
► HORSEFLY one who is fickle with women → 1947 US Army sl. (Bk.)
► MOONCALF a fickle, unstable person → 1607 obs.