Tippy

Quick meaning: Tippy is an adjective meaning (colloquial or slang) Clever, neat, smart.

Meaning

(colloquial or slang) Clever, neat, smart.

More Meanings

1. Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds.
2. (Canada, US) Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable.
3. (obsolete, colloquial or slang) Fashionable, tip-top.
4. (obsolete, colloquial or slang) A dandy.
5. (obsolete, colloquial or slang, absolute, with the) Something at the height of fashion, excellent, cool.

Example Sentences

She read Renan's Vie de Jésus, and I am now going to lend her the antidote—a tippy little bit of criticism by Pressensé.

Rent! you boor!—That, for Sir Hubert!—[Snapping his Fingers.] Ah! Nabob's servants be the tippy—Every thing be done by them so genteely.

Is his dreſs, as we may preſume it will be, elegant; exhibiting no articles of apparel but ſuch as are “All the rage?” he is “Quite the tippy.”

Of all the gay beaux, / That sport their smart cloathes, / There's none that my fancy can please, / With their Spencers or Crops, / Or woolly Foretops, / Like Bob with his Tippy Bootees.

Word Forms

• tippier
• tippiest
• tippies

Synonyms for tippy

Depending on context, synonyms include trendy, chic, sassy, cool, done, elegant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tender, crank, cranky, toeing, tidgy, tuppenny.

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