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Topee vs Toped - What's the difference?

topee | toped |

As a noun topee

is a pith helmet.

As a verb toped is

(tope).

topee

English

Noun

(s)
  • A pith helmet.
  • * 1933 , Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon , 2011, page 203,
  • I lent my topee to CamariĆ£o, who looked extremely odd in it.
  • * 1968 , Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion'' [''The Raj Quartet , Volume 2], 1998, page 444,
  • There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee .
  • * 1979 , Dudley Pope, Convoy , 2001, page 138,
  • 'Not a drop of perspiration on his face,' Ned had commented, 'and in the tropics now no one wears a topee', except certain regiments, and Peter the Planter's type of ' topee blows off in anything over a five-knot breeze.'

    Synonyms

    * (pith helmet) sola topee, solar topee

    toped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tope)
  • Anagrams

    * * *

    tope

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (top)
  • (lb) To drink excessively; to get drunk.
  • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus , that has rough skin and a long snout.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (lb) A grove of trees.
  • a toddy tope
    (Whitworth)

    Etymology 4

    Probably from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
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