tawpie

Definition of tawpienext
chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tawpie
Noun
  • Carrie raves to Seema about her creative connection with Duncan, and during another writing session, Duncan helps Carrie with her faulty printer and gawks at her closet full of designer dresses and shoes.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 31 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Netflix will release the movie in both the original Spanish version with subtitles and in an English-language dub.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 28 May 2026
  • Hz, the latest album from British ambient-dub droneshapers Seefeel, has even started.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • There’s a maddening human truth tucked into the fact that everyone — from Lebedev’s forceful, hopeful young daughter Sasha (Maya Shoham) to the lout Borkin, whom Labbadia embodies irresistibly as a kind of Bronx-y hustler — is drawn to this man in free fall.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Less impactful but notable, Riley added Jimmy Butler to join the Bam Adebayo/Tyler Herro core in 2020, though Butler fell short of delivering a championship before eventually pouting his way lout of town and being traded one year ago, last Feb. 6.
    Greg Cote January 30, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Companies are increasingly offering lump-sum payments or hiring locally to reduce costs, relocation executives said.
    Bloomberg, Oc Register, 8 June 2026
  • Shelby Bennoit was diagnosed with breast cancer after discovering a lump in her breast.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • There’s married mom of six Angela (Alexandra Melrose), who needs a break from the double-wide trailer and her lummox spouse.
    Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • At least Duncan’s daughter and fellow cadet, Teela (Eire Farrell), takes pity on the hopeless tyke.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
  • That backstory might prove disturbing for younger tykes, as will a vicious battle between Sebastian and two menacing dogs, no doubt accounting for the film’s PG rating.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
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
  • Playing the good guy, Charles Bronson projects little charisma, and his unfeeling performance works hand in glove with Winner's clodhopper direction.
    Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 2 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • Star-studded, and then some, the upcoming show boasts giant of stage and screen John Lithgow as Hogwarts Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Golden Globe winner Janet McTeer as stern but wise Professor Minerva McGonagall, and comedy stalwart Nick Frost as gentle oaf Rubeus Hagrid.
    Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And then find a slippery road, or just drive like an oaf.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 16 Feb. 2026
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“Tawpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tawpie. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

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