tawpie

chiefly Scottish

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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
  • And, in the Japanese dub, the pairs’ voice actors Kikunosuke Toya and Reina Ueda do a fantastic job, emphasizing Denji and Reze’s immaturity and hesitation in this burgeoning relationship.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this year, Sister Nancy teamed up with iconic dub music producer Mad Professor for her newest album, Armageddon.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The drunken louts who mocked and obscenely jeered the European Ryder Cup contenders at last weekend’s event at Bethpage Black golf course on Long Island would have loved it.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Women may also be less likely to feel a distinct lump during a breast self-exam, which can delay detection.
    Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • These include things like oats, coconut glycerin, and peanut butter in the lumps of coal biscuits, oats, peanut butter and bacon in the bac’n nutty biscuits, and chickpeas, tapioca flour and apples in the brushy sticks.
    Christine Persaud, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
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
  • An inspiring 60-second spot from Pampers features an array of wee tykes, all being comforted or protected by the popular Procter & Gamble diaper.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • James, who was first introduced to TV viewers as Family Matters tyke Richie Crawford, has forged an impressive career in daytime.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 11 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • The Irish independence-supporting Fenians, represented primarily by hotheaded oaf Paddy (Seamus O’Hara) and his more strategically minded sister Ellen (Niamh McCormack), loathe the family’s conservative unionist policies.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The pope, played by Samora la Perdida, is a mincing oaf who bickers with Galas about the value of translating Wagner.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Tawpie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tawpie. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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