Meaning & use
Dippy
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Silly, scatterbrained, or mildly eccentric in a foolish way.
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Her dippy sense of humor always made the office lighter.
He gave a dippy grin and forgot what he was about to say.
A note on using this word
An informal, mostly British and American colloquial term, popular in mid-20th-century slang.
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