Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Light-headed; silly; foolish; frivolous.
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Examples
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He has a gloaming sight of what is reasonable, but he is crack-brained and cockle-headed about his nipperty-tipperty poetry nonsense.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
qms commented on the word nipperty-tipperty
Patricia takes many a liberty,
Is flippant and nipperty-tipperty.
Will nothing inhibit
This flibbertigibbet,
So impishly perky and flirty?
June 25, 2016