topply

English

Etymology

From topple +‎ -y.

Adjective

topply (comparative more topply, superlative most topply)

1. (rare) Tending to topple; unstable and ready to overturn.
   • 1935, Mavis Doriel Hay, Death on the Cherwell:

     […] would drop the body of a fair-sized woman into a topply canoe.

   • 1951, The American Magazine, volume 152, page 29:

     The people who were surprised in 1948 are now carefully rebuilding, hope by hope, the same topply structure which fell on them in 1948.