dipsy

Example Sentences

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It must be like the dipsy pater familias turning up to a family gathering where everyone knows he has frittered away their inheritance.

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2017

He can be terribly funny�provided his audience possesses sympathy with the dipsy doodlers of this world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stephen Hanan makes him a dipsy old charmer who deplores the lack of discipline in modern actors: Now, these kittens, they do not get trained As we did in the days when Victoria reigned.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are Anglo-American kites, like reproductions of clipper ships and World War I Sopwiths and Fokkers, and the two-string Peter Powell, that can loop the loop, hedgehop, do dipsy doodles, roller coasters and figure eights.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boot deeper de Ur-lied ringet',     Ober stein und wein und svines, Dill it endeth vhere all peginnet,     Und alles wird ewig zu eins, In de dipsy, treamless sloomper     Vhich units de Nichts und Seyns.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey