tippy

tippy
a) Clever, neat, smart.

Of all the gay beaux, / That sport their smart cloathes, / Theres none that my fancy can please, / With their Spencers or Crops, / Or woolly Foretops, / Like Bob with his Tippy Bootees.

b) Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds.

I underſtand, however, that there is a diſtinction between theſe names in the city and St. Jamess; in the latter place you may find faſhion in the characters of the ton, the taſte, the etiquette, &c. in the city they are all the tippy, the thing, the ſort, &c. and pretty things they are, Heaven knowns! [sic]—with a ſort of a cane, which being twelve inches long, one blow of an Iriſhmans ſhillalagh would drive twelve yards away.


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