Meanings of tip-tilted in English

Tennyson speaks of them as 'tip-tilted like the petals of a rose.

The bow of the boat was lodged on the rock, and tip-tilted considerably.

Very brief was her absence; her return reticent, but pouting and with unduly tip-tilted nose.

She had sparkling eyes and a delicate tip-tilted nose.

Will she have a Grecian nose, or one tip-tilted like the petal of a rose?

The curve of the neck, the little tip-tilted chin!

Francey sat with her hands clasped behind her head and her chair tip-tilted against the wall.

And a top-gallant plume on a tip-tilted hat

Let her try the tip-tilted style first.

Her nose, he noted, was delicately tip-tilted.

He was small, slight and wiry, with pale blue eyes, a tip-tilted nose and a fresh pink-and-white complexion.

I'm disgusted at you," and Winnie "tip-tilted" her little nose with the most charming grace imaginable.

Bridge sat tip-tilted against the front of the office building reading an ancient magazine which he had found within.

With his tip-tilted nose in the air, his carefully curled head on one side, the deputy for Arras was observing Andre-Louis attentively.

Nora's tip-tilted little nose was promptly elevated still higher, and she walked away without observing the triumphant gleam in Hippy's blue eyes.

Love has come rushing to the beck of a tip-tilted chin, or the tone of a voice, or the droop of an eyelid.