turntippet

noun

turntippet

noun

Etymology From turn + tippet.

1

Obsolete A traitor; a defector; a renegade.

The priests, for the most part, were doublefaced, turntippets, and flatterersc. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, A Confution of Unwritten Verities; republished in The Works of Thomas Cranmer, volume 2, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1846, page 15:

Derived terms: turn tippet

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