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Tipple vs Tippee - What's the difference?

tipple | tippee |

As a proper noun tipple

is .

As a noun tippee is

the recipient of a gratuity.

tipple

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
  • (rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
  • (slang) Any alcoholic drink.

    • Synonyms

    * (alcoholic drink) see

    Verb

    (tippl)
  • To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
  • To drink too much alcohol.
  • To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
  • * Macaulay
    • Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.
  • To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.

    • Synonyms

    * (to drink regularly but not in excess) bibble

    Derived terms

    * tippler

    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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