TIPPY

crank, cranky, tender, tippy

(adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

tippy (comparative more tippy, superlative most tippy)

(obsolete, colloquial or slang) Fashionable, tip-top.

(obsolete, colloquial or slang, absolute, with the) In the height of fashion, excellent, cool.

(colloquial or slang) Clever, neat, smart.

Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds.

Noun

tippy (plural tippies)

(obsolete, colloquial or slang) A dandy.

Etymology 2

Adjective

tippy (comparative more tippy, superlative most tippy)

(Canada, US) Tending to tip or tilt over; unstable.

Source: Wiktionary



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THEORETICAL

(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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