toppie

[ top-ee ]

noun

1. topknot ( def 3 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of toppie¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; top(knot) + -ie

Example Sentences

Toppie knew one of the other girls, and Dollie was there.

From Project Gutenberg

Some of our fellows are deaf from it.—You heard of Toppie, mother?'

From Project Gutenberg

And the contrast between what Jack's life might have been and what it now must be was made more poignantly apparent to her when Frances Thorpe came down to stay from a Saturday to Monday: Frances in her black, tired and thin from Red-Cross work in London; bereaved in more, her old friend knew, than dear Toppie's death; yet with her leisurely, unstressed cheerfulness almost unaltered, the lightness that went with so much tenderness, the drollery that went with so much depth.

From Project Gutenberg

He talked much about "Toppie," waiting for him at home and showed them her saintly face in a locket.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Alix discovered that Maman had been more to Captain Owen than Toppie had been, and that he had betrayed them both by not telling his family of the Paris visits, life would have been unbearable without Giles' understandstanding.

From Time Magazine Archive