Definition of Trippery

1. like a noisy vulgar tripper [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trippery

tripoint
tripolar
tripole
tripoles
tripoli
tripolis
tripolyphosphate
tripolyphosphates
tripos
triposes
trippant
tripped
tripped up
tripper
trippers
trippery (current term)
trippet
trippets
trippier
trippiest
trippiness
tripping
tripping up
trippingly
trippings
trippkeite
tripple
trippled
trippler
tripplers

Literary usage of Trippery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1914)
"He had been a little spoilt, of course. Since the following day—Saturday—was showery and trippery, and on Sunday afternoon ..."

2. An Essay Upon Study: Wherein Directions are Given for the Due Conduct by John Clarke (1731)
"J, f trippery- r. Frippery, p. »02. 1. i?> '• Works of the, r. \Vorks of whom, the. p 3.49. I. atf, f. It think, r. I think, p, a^Ji '. ..."

3. South Africa To-day: With an Account of Modern Rhodesia by Hamilton Fyfe (1911)
"... are no unpleasant trippery associations to jar one's sense of fitness. Niagara is made partly a show, partly an industrial machine. ..."

4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... the counsellor Which doth for common good in counsel sit ; His works become the trippery of «¡it. ..."

5. An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the Literature of the by Philological Society (Great Britain), Philological Society (Great Britain (1861)
"Swift, Ruskin Triplicate, sb. Tennent Triplicity, sb. T Burnet Tripling, sb. three at a birth, Lewes Tripode, sb. Spec trippery, adj. Ozell Tripping, adj. ..."

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