tippiness

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English

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Etymology

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From tippy +‎ -ness.

Noun

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tippiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being tippy, tendency to tip or tilt over.
    • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck[1]:
      It was low tide, so there was a long, sickening ladder with slimy rungs to climb down to get to the canoe. The man’s big laugh and the tippiness of the canoe were even more frightening than the ladder.
    • 2004 August 30, Daren Fonda, “The Shrinking SUV”, in Time:
      [] the government’s recently released rollover test results for the 2004 model year show that SUVs vary widely in their tippiness, giving buyers more incentive to shop around.
    • 2008, Lisa Harvey, chapter 4, in Management of Spinal Cord Injuries: A Guide for Physiotherapists, Butterworth-Heinemann, page 85:
      [] a bag of personal belongings carried on the back of a wheelchair will increase its ‘tippiness’.

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