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
Tawpie comes from the Swedish word tåbe meaning "a simpleton."
一個愚蠢或粗心的年輕人。
難道你們沒有聽到我，tawpie？難道你們沒有聽到我告訴'你們什麼？
- 斯蒂文森，傑基爾博士和海德先生和Hermiston堰奇怪的案例
你是只是閒置tawpies。
- 阿米莉亞伊迪絲赫德爾斯頓巴爾，利潤和虧損
tawpie來“。傻瓜”來自瑞典的詞義田部
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