"dippy" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "dippy eggs"
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dip + -y",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "dip + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dippier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dippiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "hippy-dippy"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, “Beautify Gillette”, in The Republican, volume 1, number 22, page 1",
          "text": "If a person were to wash only one side of his face and continually neglect the other side, he would soon become a local curiosity–would be considered dippy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1957, Neville Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow",
          "text": "“He’s dippy,” she informed him. “Absolutely mad. He’ll wreck your ship for you.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2001, Peter Bradshaw, Review of Legally Blonde, The Guardian, 26 October, 2001,\nThis so-so comedy has Witherspoon as the dippy-yet-smart sorority girl whose ambitious Wasp boyfriend dumps her because she’s a natural blonde, and he’s looking to marry “Jackie not Marilyn”; so she gets a place in his class at Harvard law school to win him back."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking common sense."
      ],
      "id": "en-dippy-en-adj-WOtjd24g",
      "links": [
        [
          "common sense",
          "common sense"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Lacking common sense."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
          "sense": "lacking common sense",
          "word": "dotty"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lacking common sense",
          "word": "poblázněný"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lacking common sense",
          "word": "ztřeštěný"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 1 1 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lacking common sense",
          "word": "potrhlý"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "ref": "1912, Clara E. Laughlin, chapter 4, in The Penny Philanthropist, New York: Fleming H. Revell, page 41",
          "text": "“I’ve read in the papers that ye’re dippy about secon’-hand stuff,” she teased, referring to his mania for antiques […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in The Mating Season, London: Herbert Jenkins, page 145",
          "text": "‘[…] If you’re dippy about a girl, and another fellow has grabbed her, it can’t be pleasant to sit at a writing table, probably with a rotten pen, sweating away while the other fellow dictates “My own comma precious darling period I worship you comma I adore you period How I wish comma my dearest comma that I could press you to my bosom and cover your lovely face with burning kisses exclamation mark”. […]’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about."
      ],
      "id": "en-dippy-en-adj-eJGDBtGK",
      "links": [
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ],
        [
          "excited",
          "excited"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 96 1 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "enthusiastic",
          "word": "poblázněný"
        }
      ]
    },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Bernadette Strachan, chapter 20, in The Reluctant Landlady, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 230",
          "text": "The flat was his domain until ten a.m., he informed her brusquely. He liked reading the paper and partaking of a dippy egg in solitude.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "egg",
          "egg"
        ],
        [
          "yolk",
          "yolk"
        ],
        [
          "runny",
          "runny"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "14 32 14 41",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 19 19 40",
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          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Janet Mason Tarlov, The Everything Baby's First Food Book, page 257",
          "text": "Also, salad dressing makes a great dippy sauce. Avoid low-fat salad dressings, which are usually loaded with fillers, sugar, and sodium.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Involving or suited to dipping."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Involving or suited to dipping."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɪpi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪpi"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dippy"
}

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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -y",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪpi",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪpi/2 syllables"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dippy eggs"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "dip",
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  "etymology_text": "dip + -y",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dippier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dippiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hippy-dippy"
    }
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  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, “Beautify Gillette”, in The Republican, volume 1, number 22, page 1",
          "text": "If a person were to wash only one side of his face and continually neglect the other side, he would soon become a local curiosity–would be considered dippy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1957, Neville Shute, chapter 2, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow",
          "text": "“He’s dippy,” she informed him. “Absolutely mad. He’ll wreck your ship for you.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2001, Peter Bradshaw, Review of Legally Blonde, The Guardian, 26 October, 2001,\nThis so-so comedy has Witherspoon as the dippy-yet-smart sorority girl whose ambitious Wasp boyfriend dumps her because she’s a natural blonde, and he’s looking to marry “Jackie not Marilyn”; so she gets a place in his class at Harvard law school to win him back."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking common sense."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "common sense",
          "common sense"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Lacking common sense."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Clara E. Laughlin, chapter 4, in The Penny Philanthropist, New York: Fleming H. Revell, page 41",
          "text": "“I’ve read in the papers that ye’re dippy about secon’-hand stuff,” she teased, referring to his mania for antiques […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 16, in The Mating Season, London: Herbert Jenkins, page 145",
          "text": "‘[…] If you’re dippy about a girl, and another fellow has grabbed her, it can’t be pleasant to sit at a writing table, probably with a rotten pen, sweating away while the other fellow dictates “My own comma precious darling period I worship you comma I adore you period How I wish comma my dearest comma that I could press you to my bosom and cover your lovely face with burning kisses exclamation mark”. […]’",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ],
        [
          "excited",
          "excited"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Having romantic feelings for; excited or enthusiastic about."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Bernadette Strachan, chapter 20, in The Reluctant Landlady, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 230",
          "text": "The flat was his domain until ten a.m., he informed her brusquely. He liked reading the paper and partaking of a dippy egg in solitude.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "egg",
          "egg"
        ],
        [
          "yolk",
          "yolk"
        ],
        [
          "runny",
          "runny"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) Of an egg: cooked so that the yolk remains runny and can be used for dipping."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Janet Mason Tarlov, The Everything Baby's First Food Book, page 257",
          "text": "Also, salad dressing makes a great dippy sauce. Avoid low-fat salad dressings, which are usually loaded with fillers, sugar, and sodium.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Involving or suited to dipping."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Involving or suited to dipping."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɪpi/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪpi"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
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      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "lacking common sense",
      "word": "dotty"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lacking common sense",
      "word": "poblázněný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lacking common sense",
      "word": "ztřeštěný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lacking common sense",
      "word": "potrhlý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "enthusiastic",
      "word": "poblázněný"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dippy"
}