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
  • Here, the blurring is visual: Sometimes Leonard floats into the past looking like Gere, who wears the character without a shred of self-protection as the lens gawks at his raw skin.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The Esprit's shape, arguably more avant-garde despite its age, consistently pegs the gawk meter.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
Definition of gawk
Noun
  • The tech uses voices of the original cast to create dubs, and is compliant with SAG-AFTRA.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 20 Mar. 2025
  • That means entries like Ninja Scroll and Great Teacher Onizuka, but also the notoriously unhinged English dub of Ghost Stories and Aim for the Ace!.
    — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025
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
  • While less consequential for than last year’s clothing controversy involving the apparel brands Nike and Fanatics—which affected jerseys worn by players—New Era’s apparent misstep is another example of MLB’s brand taking lumps because of design decisions made outside of its purview.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The puck broke Ray’s glasses and left a massive lump on his head, but Ray didn’t miss a second of game action.
    — Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
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
  • In 1993 the company scooped up Fisher-Price and toys and games for infants and young tykes.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Shaun's attempts to find the tyke at the fair inspire lots of Aardman's typically hilarious sight gags, all performed without dialogue.
    — EW.com, EW.com, 20 Dec. 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
  • Hackman’s aggravation early on that directors didn’t seek out and exploit his comic and even improv talents was handled unforgettably in his portrayal of Superman villain Lex Luthor, a flamboyant oaf of Trumpian proportions.
    — Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Definition of oaf
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