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Tipper vs Tippee - What's the difference?

tipper | tippee |

As nouns the difference between tipper and tippee

is that tipper is someone who tips, someone who gives a tip while tippee is the recipient of a gratuity.

tipper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who tips, someone who gives a tip.
    • The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.
  • A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.
  • (slang) A small moustache.
    • English agent nouns

    tippee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The recipient of a gratuity.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 4, author=Jennifer 8. Lee, title=The Last Pullman Porters Are Sought for a Tribute, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=An 1890 article in The New York Times debated the ethics of tipping porters : “Tipping is objected to by austere and frugal American moralists upon the ground that it undermines the manhood and self-respect of the tippee . }}
  • (US, legal, finance) A recipient of inside information.
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