prep_phrase
Meaning 1
Standing elevated on the tips of one's toes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
on tiptoe
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Meaning 2
Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily on the tips of one's toes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- We crept out on tiptoe so as not to awake the children.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Esperanto: piedpinte — on the tips of one's toes
- Polish: na palcach — on the tips of one's toes
- Bulgarian: на пръсти (na prǎsti) — moving carefully
- Catalan: de puntetes — moving carefully
- Esperanto: piedfingropinte — moving carefully
- Finnish: varpaisillaan — moving carefully
- French: sur la pointe des pieds — moving carefully
- French: à pas feutrés — moving carefully
- Greek: ακροποδητί (akropodití) — moving carefully
- Hungarian: lábujjhegyen — moving carefully
- Irish: ar na barraicíní — moving carefully
- Polish: na palcach — moving carefully
- Russian: на цыпочках (na cypočkax) — moving carefully
- Scottish Gaelic: air corra-biod — moving carefully
- Spanish: de puntillas — moving carefully
- Spanish: en puntas de pie — moving carefully
- Spanish: de puntitas — moving carefully
- Tagalog: nakatigda — moving carefully
- Tagalog: patiyad — moving carefully
- Tagalog: nakatiyad — moving carefully
- Walloon: so ses tchåssetes — moving carefully
- Welsh: ar flaenau'r traed — moving carefully