tippy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tippy
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"It's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top."
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
I’m curious about the psychology of people who make it to the tippy top.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
“We’ve got to be on our tippy toes at all times, very aware of what’s going on around us, because it takes a second for someone to slide out,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
At the tippy top is an outdoor terrace overlooking lush Mount Washington and Northeast Los Angeles one side and a crisp silhouette of the downtown L.A. skyline on the other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
It was a tippy boat even for a souvenir.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
But that is not to say, however, that the contest for the title of tippiest tower is inconsequential.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2012
"Soft shell crabs, dear child," said Mrs. Ess Kay, "and you eat every bit, down to the tippiest end of his claw."
From Lady Betty Across the Water by Orson Lowell
Up she went behind him, on her tippiest tiptoes, and she held the watering can above his head.
From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Louis Wisa
His statue was diminnative, but his coschume supubb, for he had the tippiest Jane boots, the ivoryheadest canes, the most gawjus scarlick Jonville ties, and the most Scotch-plaidest trowseys, of any customer of that establishment.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
“But it’s the tippiest tip, sir, as ever was,” whispered the man from behind his hand.
From Sir Hilton's Sin by George Manville Fenn
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