dippy
pronunciation
How to pronounce dippy in British English:
UK [ˈdɪpi]
How to pronounce dippy in American English:
US [ˈdɪpi]
Word Origin
- dippy (adj.)
- "mad, insane, crazy," 1903, perhaps from dip + -y (2), but the exact signification is unclear. Another theory connects it with dipsomania.
Example
- 1. But to ban them and berate them seems doubly dippy .
- 2. He has a dippy notion that the moon is inhabited .
- 3. I hear you 're dippy over a dame at the new congress club .
- 4. Perhaps that joke was a little too hippie - dippy for this crowd .
- 5. Kudrow gets fed up with being considered in real life to be as dippy as her on-screen character , phoebe . " People talk slower to me , as if I were a ten year old " , she reveals .