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Toper vs Topee - What's the difference?

toper | topee |

As nouns the difference between toper and topee

is that toper is someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard while topee is a pith helmet.

toper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.

    Anagrams

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    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 Camarião, 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