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▪ I. tippy, a.1 (n.)|ˈtɪpɪ|
[f. tip n.1 + -y.]
I. colloq. or slang.
1. a. In the height of fashion; smart, fine, fashionable, ‘swell’, ‘tip-top’. ? Obs.
1810Splendid Follies I. 31 ‘My curricle has..never yet carried a bear’, ‘Except its Master’, thought Seraphina, as she gazed on this tippy-bob. 1825Jamieson, Tippy, adj., dressed in the highest fashion, modish. 1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 177 With his hosen so tight, and his castor so white, and his caxon in tippy curl. 1847Blackw. Mag. LXII. 47 His horse was the swiftest, his coat the tippiest, his cigar the longest. 1871P. Cartwright 50 Years Presiding Elder 216 It was not one of your tippy, fashionable, silver-slippered kind of conversions, but it was a backwoods conversion.
†b. absol. the tippy: the height of fashion; the ‘swell’ or fashionable thing. Obs.
1790A. M. Woodforde Let. 3 Sept. in Parson Woodforde Soc. Jrnl. (1972) V. iii. 55 Your Bonnets are quite the Tippy. 1794Sporting Mag. III. 104 Being estimated..as quite the Tippy. 1803Ibid. XXI. 145 The two-shilling gallery is now quite the tippy for the boxes. 1804C. Smith Conversations, etc. I. 25 Germain says, I shall be quite the thing, the tippy. 1811Ora & Juliet III. 133 Do you see that handsome young man there?..he at the bottom,..that's so dressed in the tippy.
†c. as n. A dandy. Obs.
1798Monthly Mag. & Brit. Reg. VI. 173/1 His dress..will be, elegant; exhibiting no articles of apparel but such as are ‘All the rage’, he is ‘Quite the tippy’. 1844‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. II. 92 You wouldn't ketch one of our York tippies at that, let alone a ginuine Lord.
2. Highly ingenious or clever; neat, smart. [perh. associated with tip n.4]
1863M. Dods Early Lett. (1910) 344 A tippy little bit of criticism by Pressensé. 1906Daily Chron. 11 Oct. 3/5 All we think of is the ‘tippy’ way in which he is got rid of.
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3. Of tea: Containing a large proportion of the ‘tips’ or leaf-buds of the shoot.
1892Walsh Tea (Philad.) 87 The dried leaf [of Paklum] is also very black, fairly made and often ‘tippy’ in the hand. Ibid. 107 The leaf [of Neilgherry] is black, coarse, ‘tippy’ and unsightly in the hand. 1895Times 21 Jan. 13/5 For the finest qualities: for handsome tippy teas, which are becoming scarce; and for good Darjeelings, the tendency is to higher quotations.
▪ II. ˈtippy, a.2 colloq.
[f. tip v.2 + -y.]
Characterized by tipping or tilting; unsteady. U.S.
1886Philadelphia Times 16 Jan. (Cent.), The tippy sea. 1923E. F. Wyatt Invisible Gods iii. i. 93 A tippy, wire-legged table. |