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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Several former military men who served along the DMZ in Viet Nam are already looking forward to a return to the fascinating twilight world of "dipsy doodle" radar scans and "big bird" spy satellites.

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