Word of the Day for Friday, July 13, 2012

tawpie \TAW-pee\, noun:

A foolish or thoughtless young person.

 Do ye no hear me, tawpie? Do ye no hear what I'm tellin' ye?
 -- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
 Hyde and Weir of Hermiston

 You are just idle tawpies.
 -- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Profit and Loss

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Tawpie comes from the Swedish word t??be meaning "a simpleton."
 

<b>Dave</b>

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