dippy

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   informal: foolish, eccentric, or lacking common sense

   His dippy plan involved carrying the sofa up the fire escape with a rope.

2. 2
   adj

   informal: extremely enthusiastic or romantically interested in someone or something

   She has been dippy about vintage radios since she restored her first one.

3. 3
   adj

   British informal, of a cooked egg: having a runny yolk suitable for dipping food into

   He served the dippy eggs with strips of buttered toast.

From dip + -y. The enthusiastic sense developed from the idea of being deeply 'into' something, while the egg sense refers directly to dipping toast into a soft yolk.

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