Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step or movement; with agility; nimbly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.

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  • adverb In a tripping manner, or while tripping

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb moving with quick light steps

Etymologies

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tripping +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • It says less than the original, but says it better, which matters more: it is easy to remember and falls trippingly from the tongue.

    The most inaccurate quiz ever superversive 2006

  • I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world.

    Sunday Salon: The Herring Seller at Euro Crime Maxine 2009

  • One big difference: the expression "business model" wasn't even invented in Diaghilev's lifetime, whereas it falls trippingly from the tongues of Mossbrucker and Malaty.

    Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15 Debra Levine 2011

  • A far more important passage to review from time to time is Hamlet's instructions to the actors in Act III, Scene II: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

    George Heymont: Laying a Clear Dramatic Foundation George Heymont 2011

  • One big difference: the expression "business model" wasn't even invented in Diaghilev's lifetime, whereas it falls trippingly from the tongues of Mossbrucker and Malaty.

    Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15 Debra Levine 2011

  • I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world.

    Sunday Salon: The Herring Seller at Euro Crime Maxine 2009

  • Students memorize poems and find they are pleased that they can speak, trippingly, the lines, "We real cool" or "Whose woods these are I think I know" or "In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo."

    How Memorization Makes Words Live Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

  • I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world.

    Reading Maxine 2009

  • I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world.

    February 2009 Maxine 2009

  • Aside from not rolling trippingly off the tongue, I found that many women took issue with the word goddess.

    Dr. Ali Binazir: What Real Life Goddesses Have in Common Dr. Ali Binazir 2011

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  • Fairies:

    Tripping hither, tripping thither,

    Nobody knows why or whither;

    We must dance and we must sing

    Round about our fairy ring!

    From Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri

    by Gilbert and Sullivan

    May 18, 2008