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tippy

Etymology 1 a. 1 (context obsolete colloquial or slang English) fashionable, tip-top. 2 (context obsolete colloquial or slang absolute with ''the'' English) In the height of fashion, excellent, cool. 3 (context colloquial or slang English) clever, neat, smart. 4 Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds. n. (context obsolete colloquial or slang English) A dandy. Etymology 2

a. (context Canada US English) Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable.

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tippy

adj. (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail [syn: crank, cranky, tender]

Usage examples of "tippy".

When all his furniture was finished on Friday night, and Tippy the elf had seen it, and clapped her hands for joy, Peeky spoke to the tools.

I know because Peeky told me himself when he showed me a new book-case he had made for Tippy!

Cotton-Tails, one named Snubby Nose, and one named Tippy Toes, suppose--just suppose they looked as much alike as two peas.

At last Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes stopped talking and dancing, and they all listened to Grandpa Grumbles.

Grandpa Grumbles went outside, and opened wide his green cotton umbrella, and invited Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes to step inside.

They pretended to look for Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes, though they knew they had gone away.

They looked in every nook and corner, but knew well enough that Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes had gone sailing away with Grandpa Grumbles.

So Susan made cookies and Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes packed their little traveling bags and Bunny packed their lunches in the little baskets.

Tippy Toes said he did not know, but Snubby Nose said he had walked a tight rope off and on all his life!

He lowered his green cotton umbrella and helped Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes up into the merry-go-round.

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Tippy, an Alaskan Husky that had come with the original group of dogs from the Army, was curled up on top of his crate just like an Arctic sled dog.

Even the aluminum piroque that had been stored in the engine room all this time was kind of fun in a tippy, flat bottomed sort of way.

Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes, by Laura Rountree Smith This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

CHAPTER II Where do you suppose Tippy Toes was, and what do you suppose he was doing?