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tawpie, tawpy, n. and a. Sc.|ˈtɔːpɪ|
Also 9 taupy, taupie, tawpee.
[Prob. from Norse: cf. Norw. taap ‘half-witted person, chiefly of women’ (Ross), Da. taabe fool, simpleton, Sw. tåp simpleton, tåpig foolish, weak-minded.]
A. n. A foolish, senseless, or thoughtless girl or woman; idle tawpie, a slattern.
1728Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 135 ‘Pottage’, quoth Hab, ‘ye senseless tawpie!’ 1787Burns Verses at Selkirk iv, Gawkies, tawpies, gowks, and fools, Frae colleges and boarding-schools. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. xl, That light⁓headed tawpee [a servant] is off to a sick mother. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 610/2 Many of his female friends were very accomplished, whom he thought useless tawpies for all that. 1902Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald 5 June 2 The word taupie meaning a foolish petted person.
B. adj. Foolish, senseless, empty-headed. (Said in reference to a girl or woman.) Now rare.
1814Saxon & Gael I. 46 (Jam.) Comin' to his table wi' my tawpy dochter in her auld gown. 1823Galt Entail xvi, The tawpy taunts of her pridefu' customers. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 174 Great langlegged, tawdry and tawpy limmers standin at closes. a1836Affleck Poet. Wks. 80 (E.D.D.) Taupie Meg is just as bad, A common limmer. |