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dippy, a. slang.|ˈdɪpɪ|
[Origin obscure; ? f. dip v.]
Mad, insane, crazy. Also const. about, over, in love (with). Also absol.
1903C. E. Merriman Lett. from Son ix. 119 Her desolateness appeared to touch a hidden, sympathetic chord in my nature. Whatever the cause, I was dippy for fair. 1904Ade True Bills 35 It is just as easy to love a girl who has the coin as it is to get dippy over the Honest Working-Girl. 1905A. M. Binstead Mop Fair i. 6, I should be compelled to lament the fact that I had become hopelessly dippy. 1922J. A. Dunn Man Trap xii. 167, I got lost there... Damned fool. No water! Too much sun! Went dippy and threw away everything. 1923Wodehouse Adv. Sally x. 121 I'd be just as happy in two rooms and a kitchenette, so long as Fillmore was there. You've no notion how dippy I am about him. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement vii. 353 The daughter she talks about seems to be completely dippy. 1938F. S. Anthony Me & Gus ii. 11 A chap dippy over a girl. 1967Times Rev. Industry Mar. 29/2 In past days the senile and the slightly dippy were clapped into institutions. |