EuroLex/E/Tip-top

tip-top


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: adj./n. 'highest excellence: the very best'

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: tipptopp, uninfluenced, end19c, via Danish, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial); Romanian: tip-top, uninfluenced, beg20c, via German, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Russian: tip-top, uninfluenced, mid20c, via German, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: restricted use: colloquial; Bulgarian: tip-top, uninfluenced, mid20c, via German, meaning: the same as in English, see above, status: fully accepted, but still marked as English (colloquial);

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