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

Bellowing with delight, Bragg tossed wood shavings in the air, waved his arms about his head and bounded about the field like a dipsy kangaroo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the smallest scene is memorable� like Beryl Reid's appearance as a dipsy researcher who fell from favor with Smiley and Control.

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

I told Ez we’d ought to have fetched along a dipsy lead, then maybe we could get our bearin’s by soundin’s.

From Cap'n Warren's Wards by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby