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Tiptoe   /tˈɪptˌoʊ/   Listen
noun
Tiptoe  n.  (pl. tiptoes)  The end, or tip, of the toe. "He must... stand on his typtoon (tiptoes)." "Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by."
To be a tiptoe, To stand a tiptoe, To stand on tiptoe or To be on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.


verb
Tiptoe  v. i.  (past & past part. tiptoed; pres. part. tiptoeing)  To step or walk on tiptoe.


adjective
Tiptoe  adj.  
1.
Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. "Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." "Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory."
2.
Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step."
Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth.





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"Tiptoe" Quotes from Famous Books



... to look through an opening in the bushes, Mrs. Kinloch could see the girl; but she was not busy with her clothes-basket. An arm was bent around her plump and graceful figure. The next instant, as Mrs. Kinloch saw by standing on tiptoe, two forms swayed toward each other, and Lucy, no way reluctantly, received ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 10, August, 1858 • Various
... was ostentatiously quiet. His troubles had to do with the expenses of his illness, and he beseeched me not to send for a doctor or a nurse. I tried to set his mind at rest, but I failed; he saw that I thought him very ill, and when I moved round the room on tiptoe he asked me to make as much noise as I liked. I was no use as a sick nurse, and my efforts to make the room look fit to live in, though meant splendidly, seemed to me to make the place more uncomfortable and cheerless ...
— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley
... Entering on tiptoe, she stood and looked upon his face. He slept as peacefully as a babe. The anxious look of care which he had worn for years had passed away, and the flickering fire revealed the ghost of a smile upon his placid face. ...
— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... diplomacy the press is sometimes indiscreetly ahead of events [laughter], but you must remember that nothing is so characteristic of the modern spirit as the art of publishing things before they happen. Nowadays all the world is on tiptoe, and the soul of journalism must be prophetic, because it has to do for a curious and wide-eyed public what was done for a much simpler generation by the alchemists and the astrologer. We ought to be thankful that this somewhat perilous business is conducted, on the whole, with so much ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... ministry but to send in his resignation at once, was lost in a sea of reflections; the crisis for him meant a total change of life and the necessity of starting on a new career. All night he sat before his fire, taking no notice of Celestine, who came in several times on tiptoe, in ...
— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac


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