Etymology tree
English flip
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English flippy
From flip + -y.
Meanings
(informal) Having a tendency to flip.
And at that point I start to feel faint and my stomach starts doing that weird flippy thing. 2012, Rebecca Snyder, Two Hearts Are Better Than One:
Etymology tree
English flip
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English flippy
From flip + -y.
Meanings
A flippy disk.
Practical experience has shown the flippies are not a flawless or long-term solution. When a disk is flipped over, it turns in the opposite direction. In doing so, it bends the nap of the liner in the disk shell in the opposite direction […] 1989, Winn L. Rosch, The Winn Rosch Hardware Bible, page 512:
(in-plural) A hairstyle in which the ends of the hair flip upward.