tawpie

noun

Definition of tawpienext
chiefly Scottish
as in tike

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  1. gawk
  2. dub
  3. lout
  4. lump
  5. lummox
  6. tyke
  7. clodhopper
  8. oaf
Noun
  • The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
  • The badaud, by contrast, is always liable to form a group or crowd, either for a mass gawk or some communal response.
    Julian Barnes, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2022
Definition of gawk
Noun
  • Whipping Up Body Scrub Rub a dub dub, coffee grounds make a good scrub.
    Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Karla Sofía Gascón is not happy with the dub for Emilia Pérez and has taken to social media to share her thoughts.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of dub
Noun
  • And when someone does cross the line, like the louts who doused cops in Harlem and Brownsville with water in 2019, most officers have shown remarkable restraint.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • That’s the memorable insult that James Kennedy (the DJ of the group) hurled at Tom Sandoval (the resident lout) last season after Sandoval — who had a girlfriend — became romantically involved with Kennedy’s ex-girlfriend.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
Definition of lout
Noun
  • Christmas in America has long been about receiving presents from Santa for being nice, or at worst, getting a lump of coal for being naughty.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Make cream cheese mixture: Beat together cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire, hot sauce, and garlic powder in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until well combined and no lumps remain, 1 to 2 minutes.
    Giovanna Vazquez, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of lump
Noun
  • Over nearly two centuries, the herbivore has been imagined as a spike-nosed lummox, inappropriate kangaroo and now, at last, a stiff-tailed, mostly quadrupedal animal.
    Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Fraser was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s: a sweetly handsome, blue-eyed lummox whose starring roles established him as a perpetual naif.
    Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
Definition of lummox
Noun
  • And with nearly 7,500 square feet of living space, tiny tykes are afforded lots of breathing room to enjoy.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Their reputation and their small tyke’s appetite are counting on something to turn around, and fast.
    David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of tyke
Noun
  • View Photos The standard air springs and adaptive dampers also further the impression of luxurious, untroubled heft, even with the 22-inch clodhoppers fitted to our test car.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Still, the Rubicon 392 is a royal handful, a bellowing musclebound clodhopper on 33-inch tires.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 28 May 2021
Definition of clodhopper
Noun
  • Either Sandler could make great work but cynically chooses not to in order to make more money, or Sandler is a talentless oaf who somehow was able to achieve something actually good with the help of a visionary director.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
  • As women have enjoyed more economic opportunities, they’re less often forced to marry some oaf who gets violent after a few drinks — and, anyway, what self-respecting woman with independent means would want to marry, say, a fan of Andrew Tate?
    Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Definition of oaf
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