Brip´kin, n. 1. One who half does things; not a thoroughbred. 2. A suburbanite, commuter.
Brip´kin, a. Off color; second-rate; shabby-genteel, a little out of style.
The bripkin invites a girl to the theatre, but he takes her in a street-car—on a rainy night, too! The bripkin tips the waiter less than ten per cent. of his bill. He carries a cane, but does not wear gloves. He frequents the manicure, and wears near-silk shirts, with frayed cuffs. His hat is “the latest” but his coat sleeves are shiny.
The female bripkin has a button off her shoe; she wears white gloves, but they are badly soiled. She wears a three-quarter-length grey squirrel coat.
American champagne is bripkin—Key-West cigars and domestic beer, and imitation coffee. (See Voip.)
A bripkin umbrella is made of gloria.
The second-rate suburb of a great city is a bripkin, and so is he who dwells therein. He wears a watch-chain strung across his vest. (See Mooble.)
Bripkins are the marked-down gowns and suits, at the tail end of the season; and the green hat, “reduced from $18.75.”
A Bripkin sat in a trolley car,
And his eyes were bright and tiny;
His collars and cuffs were slightly soiled,
But his finger nails were shiny.
A girl came in with run-over heels,
And the Bripkin up and kissed her!
But I knew, by her mangy ermine muff,
That she was his Bripkin sister.