Home › Words › T › tippettippet/ˈtɪpɪt/tippet means A surname.tippet is pronounced /ˈtɪpɪt/.EtymologyVariant of Tibbett.nameA surname.nounA shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.e.g.“Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets.” — 1942, Emily Carr, “Christmas”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.e.g.“[…] so this Iesuitical sect is descrired by their long [i]ackets, their course stockinges, their thicke cobled shoes, their long clokes with claspe vnder the chin, their sorbonical tippet […]” — 1581, Meredith Hanmer, chapter 3, in The Iesuites Banner, London:A piece of mail armor protecting the shoulders and neck; a camail.A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.e.g.“The school constituency[…]provded “tippets” of straw to repair the thatch” — 1882, David Douglas, Life & Work:In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.A bird's ruffle.One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.victorine 65% match — A woman's fur tippet, fastened at the neck vs tippet →pelerine 59% match — A kind of short cape or covering for the shoulders, associated especially with medieval pilgrims (of any gender). vs tippet →tippy 57% match — Fashionable, tip-top. vs tippet →capelet 55% match — A small cape worn over the shoulders by women. vs tippet →petti 55% match — A petticoat. vs tippet →tift 55% match — A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff. vs tippet →tuftlet 54% match — A little tuft. vs tippet →capote 54% match — A long coat or cloak with a hood. vs tippet →