on tiptoe en · ADP
Meanings
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Standing elevated on the tips of one's toes.
Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun. I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
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Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily on the tips of one's toes.
We crept out on tiptoe so as not to awake the children.
Synonyms
tiptoeing · atiptoe · atiptoe · tiptoeingly · en pointe
Translations (22)
tl patiyad (moving carefully) · gd air corra-biod (moving carefully) · fr à pas feutrés (moving carefully) · es de puntillas (moving carefully) · el ακροποδητί (moving carefully) · fi varpaisillaan (moving carefully) · bg на пръсти (moving carefully) · cy ar flaenau'r traed (moving carefully) · ga ar na barraicíní (moving carefully) · wa so ses tchåssetes (moving carefully) · ca de puntetes (moving carefully) · eo piedfingropinte (moving carefully) · pl na palcach (moving carefully) · hu lábujjhegyen (moving carefully) · ru на цыпочках (moving carefully) · es de puntitas (moving carefully) · es en puntas de pie (moving carefully) · fr sur la pointe des pieds (moving carefully) · pl na palcach (on the tips of one's toes) · tl nakatigda (moving carefully) · tl nakatiyad (moving carefully) · eo piedpinte (on the tips of one's toes)