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topply en · ADJ

Etymology

From topple + -y.

Meanings

1. (rare) Tending to topple; unstable and ready to overturn.
   • […] would drop the body of a fair-sized woman into a topply canoe. 1935, Mavis Doriel Hay, Death on the Cherwell:
   • The people who were surprised in 1948 are now carefully rebuilding, hope by hope, the same topply structure which fell on them in 1948. 1951, The American Magazine, volume 152, page 29:

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