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clippy

clippy is the alternative form of clippie.

Meaning of clippie

Noun

clippie (plural clippies)

  1. (UK, slang) A bus conductor.
    • And yet, in the last decade, women in trousers have ceased to be […] functionally invisible. (I can’t remember if clippies wear trousers or skirts, these days; that’s what I mean by invisible.)1975, Angela Carter, “Trouser Protest”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 144

Proper noun capitalized: Clippy

Clippy

  1. Clippit, an interactive virtual assistant, depicted as a paper clip with eyes and eyebrows, that appeared chiefly in Microsoft Office software in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Forms of clippy

pluralclippies

Origin of clippy

From Clippit + -y (suffix forming familiar names, pet names, nicknames and terms of endearment).

Questions about clippy

What does clippy mean?
Clippy means clippit, an interactive virtual assistant, depicted as a paper clip with eyes and eyebrows, that appeared chiefly in Microsoft Office software in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
What is clippy the alternative form of?
Clippy is the alternative form of clippie.
What part of speech is clippy?
Clippy is a proper noun.

Words near clippy in the dictionary

  1. clippings
  2. clippity-clop
  3. clippity-cloppity
  4. clippock
  5. clippocks
  6. clippy
  7. cliprofen
  8. clips
  9. clips it
  10. clips someone's wings
  11. clips the church

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clippy (page history and authors); Clippy (page history and authors); clippie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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