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Facetious female's backchat mostly rubbish (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

flippant

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'facetious' is the definition.
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'female's backchat mostly rubbish' is the wordplay.
'female's backchat' becomes 'flip' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'mostly' means to remove the last letter (most but not all of the word).
'rubbish' becomes 'pants' (informal term meaning poor-quality).
'pants' with its final letter removed is 'pant'.
'flip'+'pant'='FLIPPANT'

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(Other definitions for flippant that I've seen before include "Not serious or respectful" , "Impudent" , "showing disrespectful attitude" , "Showing disrespectful levity" , "Being facetious over pint flap" .)

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