(now literary) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.
tripe
tripe
intj
(derogatory) That (what has just been said) is untrue.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly.
(figurative, derogatory) Something foolish or valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment (movies, television).
An edible lichen, especially rock tripe.
The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
trope
trope
noun
(Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
(Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
(archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
(art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
(medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
(metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
verb
(intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.
(transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
twerp
twerp
noun
(UK, colloquial) A fool, a twit.
(US, colloquial, childish) A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling).
(US, colloquial, childish) A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible.