dippy
/ˈdɪpi
/adjective (dippier, dippiest) informal
Silly and eccentric or scatterbrained: dippy ideas...
- My dippy mother is going around frantically getting all the things from inside the living room that are worth any money, which I can tell you it ‘aint a lot!
- In this show suitable for six- to ten-year-olds, the cast of three comprises Rachel Over's creature-loving Norah; Paul Hutchinson as her dippy, wannabe pop-star boyfriend Norman and Lucy Atkinson as none other than God herself.
- Inoffensive, energetic and pleasantly silly comic froth, David Dobkin's jaunty Shanghai Knights serves up robust verbal cut and thrust from the ever willing Chan and his charmingly dippy, English-baiting foil, Wilson.
Origin
Early 20th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- mountain heather
- mountain hemlock
- mountain hen
- mountain herring
- mountain holly
- mountain howitzer
- mountain-land
- mountain larch
- mountain lark
- mountain laurel
- mountain-like
- mountain lily
- mountain limestone
- mountain linnet
- mountain lion
- mountain magnolia
- mountain magpie
- mountain mahogany
- mountain male fern
- mountain man
- mountain maple
- mountain mass
- mountain meal
- mountain mint
- mountain mockingbird