tawpie

chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tawpie
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
Noun
  • So, grab your dirty pet, a clean towel and get ready to rub a dub dub, your pup in a tub!
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 10 May 2025
  • Localization is an art, not a science, and just like there are plenty of dubs that are just as good if not better than the original, there are also shows and movies with initially terrible localization.
    Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There’s at least one major shoe that could drop — why devote an entire episode to the Gemstone origin story if that gold Bible isn’t going to pay off somehow? — but The Righteous Gemstones loves these grotesque, dysfunctional louts.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Just a few months earlier, in November 2023, her fiancé (then boyfriend) discovered a blueberry-sized lump in her left breast.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 15 May 2025
  • Hemorrhoids appear as hard lumps and may cause pain, itching, and bleeding.
    Sarah Hudgens, Health, 6 May 2025
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
Noun
  • Police believe the architecture-loving tyke managed to take a train to Manhattan, Akond said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • In 1993 the company scooped up Fisher-Price and toys and games for infants and young tykes.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
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
Noun
  • Buck is a loquacious, glad-handing oaf who has a boring way with a witty story, and is marked for death.
    Fred Schruers, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Tawpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tawpie. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!