Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Not sensible; foolish.
Wiktionary
- adj. Lacking common sense
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What Morse calls a "dippy" local ruling requires Ben & Jerry's staffers to undergo blood tests every three months to guard against infecting customers.”
“We're kind of dippy and strange, we wear funny clothes at least a few times a year, we insist on lecturing you about how St. Patrick actually murdered Druids and the whole "snake" thing is a smokescreen while you're trying to chug your third mug of green beer in peace.”
“The reason for that, which is kind of dippy, is I've been feeling very grateful to you.”
“Did I remark in some preceding breath that Allison is more or less "dippy" over music?”
“At any rate, the good, sober New Englanders went back home and sent him $300,000 more, which set him entirely "dippy," in local phrase.”
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“Now Martha declares that she finds the site "dippy" and that Twitter is far more efficient.”
“dippy"; but he knew the ways of fish, from whales to minnows.”
“Viko leaves behind a "dippy" father, a "dotty" mother, a bewildered sister, and likely some sort of pets or offspring which I could have taken the time & trouble to look up — but, really, who cares?”
Fictionaut: Case History #1 from The Karmic Adjustment Bureau files:
“Again, I'm not advocating some "Be one with the snakes and they'll be one with us" New Age hippy-dippy mentality.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dippy’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Mots Fous
Describing the demented--as colorfully as possible.
bats in the belfry, out to lunch, daft, stark ravin' mad, unsound, barmy, nuts but nuts, barking, touched, cracked, doolally, potty and 22 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Mad as a March hare
Words to describe the mad, the insane, the... well, me.
unhinged, unglued, mental, fruitcake, lunatic, nutter, potty, dippy, kooky, batty, daft, cuckoo and 20 more...
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loonie
Inspired by Peter Reading's "Euphemisms".
crackers, potty, loony, bonkers, nutty, screwy, ga-ga, dull, strange, do-lally, dopey, silly and 83 more...
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New York Times
All the words I don't know in New York Times Sunday Newspaper
inexorable, discerning, revere, warp, garner, backlash, ample, cachet, nonagenarian, plaintive, inaugural, shrine and 58 more...
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GRE D
DISPORT, Dinky, Duress, drippy, Desecrate, dud, delve, Dally, dippy, Doddery, Distraught, disparage and 53 more...
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