Talk:tippy

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tippy

1. rfd-sense (obsolete, colloquial, or slang, absolute, with the) In the height of fashion.
2. rfd-sense (colloquial or slang) clever, neat, smart.

These both seem part of: (obsolete, colloquial, or slang) fashionable, tip-top. If they are distinct they would need citations. Isn't the word actually a derivative of "tip-top", capable of bearing any and all of its meanings. DCDuring TALK 19:07, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Also, the use of (deprecated template usage) ??? is just the pits for our normal human users. DCDuring TALK 19:31, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

These senses are in the OED. What would improve on absolute?—uncomparable, incomparable, non-comparable? Is there a reason you didn't go to RFV? —Michael Z. 2010-03-31 02:05 z

1. Possibly omission. See [full text] of "adjectives, absolute" at MWDEU.
2. I thought that the senses were simply redundant by the standards we often apply (which admittedly lead to drastic exclusion of senses in widely used polysemic words). I would be happy with attestation.

As tip-top#Adjective (1722 per MW Online) apparently antedates tippy and as -y sometimes is used to construct derived terms (and as the sense seems at first blush to be close to senses of tip-top), I think this merits some clarification. DCDuring TALK 12:33, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

(colloquial or slang) clever, neat, smart. I don't really know what this means. RFV sure although it's difficult to imagine either passing. But yeah, go for it. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

kept -- Prince Kassad 22:14, 9 March 2011 (UTC)