Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step or movement; with agility; nimbly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a tripping manner; with a light, nimble, quick step; with agility; nimbly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
tripping manner, or while tripping
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb moving with quick light steps
Etymologies
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Examples
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It says less than the original, but says it better, which matters more: it is easy to remember and falls trippingly from the tongue.
The most inaccurate quiz ever superversive 2006
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I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world.
Sunday Salon: The Herring Seller at Euro Crime Maxine 2009
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One big difference: the expression "business model" wasn't even invented in Diaghilev's lifetime, whereas it falls trippingly from the tongues of Mossbrucker and Malaty.
Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15 Debra Levine 2011
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A far more important passage to review from time to time is Hamlet's instructions to the actors in Act III, Scene II: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
George Heymont: Laying a Clear Dramatic Foundation George Heymont 2011
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One big difference: the expression "business model" wasn't even invented in Diaghilev's lifetime, whereas it falls trippingly from the tongues of Mossbrucker and Malaty.
Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15 Debra Levine 2011
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I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world.
Sunday Salon: The Herring Seller at Euro Crime Maxine 2009
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Students memorize poems and find they are pleased that they can speak, trippingly, the lines, "We real cool" or "Whose woods these are I think I know" or "In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo."
How Memorization Makes Words Live Carol Muske-Dukes 2011
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I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world.
Reading Maxine 2009
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I was completely absorbed in it, totally enjoying my sojourn in its multilayered, trippingly written, disciplined, and astutely observed world.
February 2009 Maxine 2009
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Aside from not rolling trippingly off the tongue, I found that many women took issue with the word goddess.
Dr. Ali Binazir: What Real Life Goddesses Have in Common Dr. Ali Binazir 2011
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Fairies:
Tripping hither, tripping thither,
Nobody knows why or whither;
We must dance and we must sing
Round about our fairy ring!
From Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri
by Gilbert and Sullivan
May 18, 2008