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Definition: Tippy |
TippyAdjective1. (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: TippySynonyms: crank (adj), cranky (adj), tender (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | One time I fed Tippy Cracker-Jacks. (George Carlin: Carlin on Campus; writing credit: George Carlin) Picture this: It's a couple of months from now, Tippy Von Schlagger opens her new copy of Dazzle Magazine and guess what she sees? (High Society; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Pat Dougherty) | |
Lyrics | On my tippy toes (Crybaby; performing artist: Mariah Carey) Then we'll tippy toe to our room (Just Another Day In Paradise; performing artist: Phil Vassar) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tippy, tonsorial terrier, renders swift service to incoming patrons of shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Tippy" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Tippy" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 88.24% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.76% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tippy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tippy | Last name | 200 | 39,002 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tippy": tippy-toe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tippy | 19 |
tippy turtle | 10 |
tippy toe | 8 |
tippy walker | 7 |
canoe tippy | 5 |
dam tippy | 4 |
hedron tippy | 4 |
tippy well | 4 |
hedren tippy | 3 |
club dance tippy | 3 |
dance hall tippy | 2 |
canoe tippy too tyler | 2 |
tippy topps | 2 |
tippy top | 2 |
tippy martinez | 2 |
cup tippy | 2 |
draw tippy | 2 |
ballroom lake tippy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tippy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Pa Stabilitet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Dülöngõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippytay Instável (ambulatory, astatic, baffling, bumpy, changeable, erratum, fickle, incandesce, inconstant, infirm, kid glove, labor, lubricous, mobile home, mutable, off balance, slippery, slippy, temperamental, ticklish, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, variable, wayward, wonky). (various references) Неустойчивый. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tippy": tippytoe, tippytoed, tippytoeing, tippytoes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tippy" (pronounced ti"pē) |
| 3 | -i" p ē | chippy, dippy, hippie, lippy, nippy, zippy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-p-t-y" | |
-1 letter: pipy, pity, typp. | |
-2 letters: pip, pit, tip, yip. | |
-3 letters: it, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-p-t-y" | |
+1 letter: trippy, uppity. | |
+2 letters: platypi. | |
+3 letters: epiphyte, papistry, peripety, snippety, tippytoe, tittuppy. | |
+4 letters: dyspeptic, epiphytes, epiphytic, polytypic, pomposity, pretyping, propriety, tippytoed, tippytoes. | |
+5 letters: appositely, dyspeptics, epiphytism, flippantly, oppositely, periphytic, periphyton, perpetuity, perplexity, phenotypic, pleiotropy, popularity, procryptic, propensity, prosperity, prototypic, psilophyte, trippingly, typescript, uppityness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 69 70 70 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .. .--. .--. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101001 01110000 01110000 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T i p p y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0069 0070 0070 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5475828291 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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