tippy

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Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds

Before rolling some planters are in the habit of sifting the leaf through a No. 4 sieve, and manufacturing the small leaf and tips that fall through separately. This will add to the appearance of the tea, by making it more tippy, but unless fancy teas are being made will not pay for the time and trouble incurred.

In the height of fashion, excellent, cool

As neither of them said “No,” he opened the will, and found that the old lady had left all the accumulated scrapings of a long life of industry to her son William, to aid his “great abilities” in promoting the honour of the family. “That'll do, Smugs,” said Bill, and then turning to his brothers, he observed. “Just the tippy, for I was cleaned out. ”.

Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable
Clever, neat, smart

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.

A dandy

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.”''.

Fashionable, tip-top

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.

(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
tippy-toe
Walk quietly and carefully with one's heels raised and one's weight on the balls of the feet
tippy

    Silbentrennung

    tip·py

    Türkische aussprache

    tîpi

    Aussprache

    /ˈtəpē/ /ˈtɪpiː/

    Etymologie

    () 1790, tip (“apex”) +‎ -y. Sense of “clever” may be influenced by tip (“n., inside information”).
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