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English
Etymology
From dip + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dippy (comparative dippier, superlative dippiest)
- (informal) Lacking common sense.
1922, “Beautify Gillette”, in The Republican, volume 1, number 22, page 1:If a person were to wash only one side of his face and continually neglect the other side, he would soon become a local curiosity–would be considered dippy.
1957, Neville Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow:“He’s dippy,” she informed him. “Absolutely mad. He’ll wreck your ship for you.”
- 2001, Peter Bradshaw, Review of Legally Blonde, The Guardian, 26 October, 2001,
- This so-so comedy has Witherspoon as the dippy-yet-smart sorority girl whose ambitious Wasp boyfriend dumps her because she’s a natural blonde, and he’s looking to marry “Jackie not Marilyn”; so she gets a place in his class at Harvard law school to win him back.
- (informal) Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about.
1912, Clara E. Laughlin, chapter 4, in The Penny Philanthropist, New York: Fleming H. Revell, page 41:“I’ve read in the papers that ye’re dippy about secon’-hand stuff,” she teased, referring to his mania for antiques […]
1949, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in The Mating Season, London: Herbert Jenkins, page 145:‘ […] If you’re dippy about a girl, and another fellow has grabbed her, it can’t be pleasant to sit at a writing table, probably with a rotten pen, sweating away while the other fellow dictates “My own comma precious darling period I worship you comma I adore you period How I wish comma my dearest comma that I could press you to my bosom and cover your lovely face with burning kisses exclamation mark”. […] ’
- (UK, informal) Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping.
2004, Bernadette Strachan, chapter 20, in The Reluctant Landlady, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 230:The flat was his domain until ten a.m., he informed her brusquely. He liked reading the paper and partaking of a dippy egg in solitude.
- (informal) Involving or suited to dipping.
2001, Janet Mason Tarlov, The Everything Baby's First Food Book, page 257:Also, salad dressing makes a great dippy sauce. Avoid low-fat salad dressings, which are usually loaded with fillers, sugar, and sodium.
Synonyms
- (lacking common sense): dotty
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