Tiptoe vs Tiptoes - What's the difference?
tiptoe | tiptoes |
Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
* Cowper
To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
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As nouns the difference between tiptoe and tiptoes
is that tiptoe is the tips of one's toes collectively while tiptoes is the tips of the toes.As verbs the difference between tiptoe and tiptoes
is that tiptoe is to walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground while tiptoes is (tiptoe).As an adjective tiptoe
is standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.tiptoe
English
(wikipedia tiptoe)Alternative forms
* tip-toe * tippytoe, tippy-toeDerived terms
* on tiptoeAdjective
(-)- Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
- above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory
- with tiptoe step
Verb
(d)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}