Fashion vs Tippy - What's the difference?
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(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
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* John Locke
* H. Spencer
(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
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The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
* Bible, Luke ix. 29
* Shakespeare
(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
To make, build or construct.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
* 2005 , :
(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
* John Locke
(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
* Spenser
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
(obsolete, colloquial, or, slang) Fashionable, tip-top.
* 1806 , Kitty Crotchet, “The Bootees—A New Song”, in The Port Folio , v 2, Philadelphia: John Watts, p 76:
In the height of fashion, excellent, cool.
* 1802 , “Ladies Literature”, in New England Quarterly Magazine , v 2, Boston, p 225:
* 1806 , The Port Folio , v 2, Philadelphia: John Watts, p 143:
* 1808 , Thomas Morton, “A Cure for the Heart Ache”, in The British Theatre; or, A Collection of Plays , London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, p 10:
* 1845 , “The Frog and the Fox”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist , London: Henry Colburn, p 371:
(colloquial, or, slang) Clever, neat, smart.
* 1863 [1910], Early Letters of Marcus Dods, D.D. , p 344:
Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds.
* 1886 , T.C. Owen, The Tea Planter's Manual , Colombo: A.M. & J. Ferguson, pp 49–50:
(obsolete, colloquial, or, slang) A dandy.
* 1798 , “Whim?ical Peculiarities of Expre??ion”, in The Monthly Magazine and British Register , v 6, London: R. Phillips, p 173:
As nouns the difference between fashion and tippy
is that fashion is (countable) a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons while tippy is (obsolete|colloquial|or|slang) a dandy.As a verb fashion
is to make, build or construct.As an adjective tippy is
(obsolete|colloquial|or|slang) fashionable, tip-top or tippy can be (canada|us) tending to tip or tilt over; unstable.fashion
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
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- the innocent diversions in fashion
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
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- the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
- The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- I do not like the fashion of your garments.
- men of fashion
Derived terms
* fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashionVerb
(en verb)- I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
- a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* refashionExternal links
* *tippy
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Etymology 1
1790, .Adjective
(en adjective)- Of all the gay beaux, / That sport their smart cloathes, / There's none that my fancy can please, / With their Spencers'' or ''Crops'', / Or woolly ''Foretops'', / Like ''Bob'' with his ''Tippy Bootees .
- I under?tand, however, that there is a di?tinction between the?e names in the city and St. James's; in the latter place you may find fa?hion in the characters of the ton'', the ''ta?te'', the ''etiquette'', &c. in the city they are all the ''tippy'' , the ''thing'', the ''?ort'', &c. and pretty ''things'' they are, Heaven knowns! [sic]—with a ''?ort'' of a cane, which being twelve inches long, one blow of an Iri?hman's ?hillalagh would drive ''twelve yards away.
- The wig's the thing, the wig, the wig, / Be of the ton a natty sprig, / The thing, the tippy and the twig, / Nor heed who are the truly wise, / For after all, in vulgar eyes, / The wisdom's in the wig.
- Rent! you boor!—That, for Sir Hubert!—[Snapping his Fingers .] Ah! Nabob's servants be the tippy —Every thing be done by them so genteely.
- As neither of them said “No,” he opened the will, and found that the old lady had left all the accumulated scrapings of a long life of industry to her son William, to aid his “great abilities” in promoting the honour of the family. [. . .] “That'll do, Smugs,” said Bill, and then turning to his brothers, he observed. “Just the tippy , for I was cleaned out. [. . .]”
- She read Renan's Vie de Jésus , and I am now going to lend her the antidote—a tippy little bit of criticism by Pressensé.
- Before rolling some planters are in the habit of sifting the leaf through a No. 4 sieve, and manufacturing the small leaf and tips that fall through separately. This will add to the appearance of the tea, by making it more tippy , but unless fancy teas are being made will not pay for the time and trouble incurred.
Noun
(tippies)- Is his dre?s, as we may pre?ume it will be, elegant; exhibiting no articles of apparel but ?uch as are “All the rage?” he is “Quite the tippy .”''