tiptoe mirth

English

Noun

tiptoe mirth (uncountable)

(archaic, idiomatic) Great hilarity; the highest degree of mirth.
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 2392685:
  The Cavaliers […] were filling the principal avenue to the Castle , with tiptoe mirth and revelry

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tiptoe mirth under tiptoe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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