Trippiery

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  • Trippière: (French) a dance → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
  • Tipperary: a county in Munster
  • trip: to move with short light steps or skips; to dance
  • trip ... toe: (phrase) 'trip the light fantastic toe': to dance nimbly (from John Milton's L'Allegro: 'Come, and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe')