dippy
/ˈdɪpi
/adjective (dippier, dippiest) informal
Silly and eccentric or scatterbrained: dippy ideas...
- My dippy mother is going around frantically getting all the things from inside the living room that are worth any money, which I can tell you it ‘aint a lot!
- In this show suitable for six- to ten-year-olds, the cast of three comprises Rachel Over's creature-loving Norah; Paul Hutchinson as her dippy, wannabe pop-star boyfriend Norman and Lucy Atkinson as none other than God herself.
- Inoffensive, energetic and pleasantly silly comic froth, David Dobkin's jaunty Shanghai Knights serves up robust verbal cut and thrust from the ever willing Chan and his charmingly dippy, English-baiting foil, Wilson.
Origin
Early 20th century: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
- readhesion
- native companion
- native currant
- native daphne
- native doctor
- native dog
- native flax
- native forest
- native friendship center
- native friendship centre
- native garden
- native harebell
- native heath
- native hen
- native laurel
- native law
- native-like
- native location
- native logging
- natively
- native metal
- native mulberry
- nativeness
- native orange
- native oven