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DIPPIT, adj. Silly (Ags., Edb. 2000s).Sc. 1995 Scotland on Sunday 23 Apr :
Those he blames, or those he can blame, are those weaker than him: his dad's dog, his gay half-brother, his dippit wee sister, his bourgeois workmates, women in general.Edb. 2000:
Mother! You are so dippit!Sc. 2001 Scotsman 27 Feb 14:
What was it old Gerry used to say about a fool and his money? Are folk really that dippit? Do these glaiks look up at the Moon at night and say to a passer-by: "I own a piece of that"?
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