Baum Character Registry · Person / intelligent being
Dippy
A canonical individual in the Baum-only Character Census. Appearance evidence is chronological and text-grounded.
Proper named / textual designationNarrative / historical individual
Registry
Character record
- Knowledge ID
- CHAR-0280
- Registry ID
- char-0280
- Canonical display name
- Dippy
- Naming status
- Proper named / textual designation
- Character type
- Person / intelligent being
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Emerald City of Oz · Ch. 16
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 0
- Relationships
- 0
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
Appearance Profile
Text-grounded appearance
Appearance is tracked only where Baum supplies textual evidence; absence of description is not filled from illustration traditions.
Appearance Timeline
Appearance states
No enriched appearance state yet. The registry deliberately records “not yet extracted” rather than inferring hair, eyes, clothing, size, or materials.
Baum evidence
First matched textual evidence
d. "What I'd like to know," said a can-opener, in a shrill voice, "is why the little girl came to our forest anyhow and why she intruded upon Captain Dipp--who ought to be called Dippy--and who she is, and where she came from, and where she is going, and why and wherefore and therefore and when." "I'm sorry to see, Sir Jabber," remarked the King to the can-opener, "that you have such a prying disposition. As a matter of