Definition of Tripy

1. worthless [adj TRIPIER, TRIPIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tripy

triptycas
triptycene
triptycenes
triptych
triptychs
tripudia
tripudiary
tripudiation
tripudiations
tripudium
tripuhyite
tripulant
tripus
tripwire
tripwires
tripy (current term)
triquadrantal
triquark
triquarks
triquetra
triquetrae
triquetral
triquetral bone
triquetral bones
triquetral fracture
triquetrals
triquetras
triquetrous
triquetrous cartilage
triquetrous leek

Literary usage of Tripy

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

1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1889)
"(3) Yet a third and different class (tripy}, which brings some in contact with ... To one of a different class (tripy), kinds of tongues ; to another of the ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... Tarry Tom, Tish Tom, tripy Tom, Trooper Tom (all Thomas Alderson by name). Assy Wul Bttl, Ayny Jack, ..."

3. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"... so that each shall receive as much as tripy are to pay; and perhaps this might bring about so much good humor as to induce them to give the temporary ..."

4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"He was a thick-set, strong-built fellow, with a tripy skin—lips, cheeks, forehead, all one color; his eyes were gray and large, and his eyebrows black as ..."

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