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▪ I. tippy-toe, n. (adv., a.)|ˈtɪpɪtəʊ|
Also tippi-toe.
[Alteration of tiptoe, tip-toe n. (adv., a.): cf. -y6.]
A. n. pl. The tips of the toes. Usu. in phr. on (one's) tippy-toes. Occas. also as collect. sing.
1899Century Mag. Nov. 47/2 The whole court now stood on its tippy-toes. 1965New Statesman 3 Dec. 897/2 Illustrations..show the dear little mite standing on tippy-toe to feed famished and deserted nestlings. 1980Dirt Bike Oct. 68/1, I stood on tippi-toes to watch.
B. adv. Short for on tippy-toes (see sense A above).
1901‘Zack’ Dunstable Weir 216 The rocking stone stud tippy-toe above his girt shadder. 1975R. Helms Tolkien's World iv. 126 A rather vulgar sugar-iced concoction, with a doll tippy-toe on its pinnacle as the Fairy Queen.
C. adj. Standing or walking on tiptoe. Also fig.
1951J. Steinbeck Log from ‘Sea of Cortez’ p. xli, Ed would be smiling and doing his tippy-toe mouse dance. 1968Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 8 Nov. 1/5 He [sc. Richard Nixon] is not as cautious and tippy-toe as he appeared to many voters. 1980S. T. Haymon Death & Pregnant Virgin ix. 71 When Jack Ellers was excited he rose up on the balls of his feet... Now he came into the dreary room..all tippy-toe.
▪ II. ˈtippy-toe, v.
Also tippie-toe.
[f. prec.]
intr. To go on tiptoe, to move lightly. Also fig. Cf. tiptoe v. 2.
1901‘Zack’ Dunstable Weir 232, I tippy-toed back to the fire. 1942C. Morley Thorofare xxxvi. 169, I tippy-toed down one side to join the Confed'racy while my old man was pretending to look up the other. 1974Globe & Mail (Toronto) 29 Oct. 6/6 Did he tippy-toe across the press? 1980Daily Tel. 2 Sept. 11/2 The roly-poly little girl who tippy-toed through Sandy Wilson's enchanting ‘Big Best Shoes’ number in ‘Valmouth’ all those years ago.
Hence ˈtippy-toed ppl. a. (in quot. as quasi-adv.).
1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling iv. 31 A deer track'll prove the same. A deer or bear that's fat and heavy'll sink in that-a-way [at the heel]. A lettle ol' light doe or yearlin' 'll walk tippy-toed, and you'll not see more than the front of their hooves. |