topply

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English

Etymology

From topple +‎ -y.

Adjective

topply (comparative more topply, superlative most topply)

  1. (rare) Tending to topple; unstable and ready to overturn.
    • 1935, Mavis Doriel Hay, Death on the Cherwell:
      [] would drop the body of a fair-sized woman into a topply canoe.
    • 1951, The American Magazine, volume 152, page 29:
      The people who were surprised in 1948 are now carefully rebuilding, hope by hope, the same topply structure which fell on them in 1948.