tiptoe
(adjective) walking on the tips of ones’s toes so as to make no noise; “moving with tiptoe steps”
tiptoe
(adverb) on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe; “standing tiptoe”
tiptoe
(noun) the tip of a toe
tiptoe, tip, tippytoe
(verb) walk on one’s toes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tiptoe (plural tiptoes)
(usually, in the plural) The tip of the toe.
tiptoe (not comparable)
Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
tiptoe (third-person singular simple present tiptoes, present participle tiptoeing, simple past and past participle tiptoed)
To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground. [from late 14th C.]
• Petito
Source: Wiktionary
Tip"toe`, n.; pl. Tiptoes (.
Definition: The end, or tip, of the toe. He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. Chaucer. Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. Spenser. To be, or To stand, a tiptoe or on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.
Tip"toe`, a.
1. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. Byron.
2. Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." Cowper. Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. Sir W. Scott.
Tip"toe`, v. i.
Definition: To step or walk on tiptoe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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