What's the difference between chappie and covey?

Chappie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a cheeky chappy side to Mr Duterte that can be engaging.
  • (2) The humans in Chappie take great pleasure in introducing their new friend to art and culture, while encouraging his own efforts to create.
  • (3) However, when Olly Murs releases cheeky-chappy ska-lite single, Hooray!
  • (4) Pitch Strenuous workouts leavened by lots of cheeky-chappie banter.
  • (5) 3.16am BST 4 mins: We're hearing that the referee tonight is something of a red card happy chappy.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patel, best known for Slumdog Millionaire, plays a scientist who has programmed Chappie with artificial intelligence, and yet the relationship between the robot and his creator is more akin to father and son.
  • (7) Meanwhile March’s Chappie is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s return to the streets of metropolitan South Africa in the company of a Short Circuit-style sapient robot and Die Antwoord members Yolandi and Ninja.
  • (8) A cheerful chappy Carlosh, looking very like that king the Portuguese threw a bomb at.
  • (9) He stands squarely in the British tradition of cheeky chappies."
  • (10) The audience lap up his cheeky-chappie shtick (in Scotland, we’d call him gallus ), because he’s acknowledged that he’s one of them, and they feel ownership.
  • (11) 11.07pm GMT More on this chappie West Brom have signed, courtesy of publishing sensation Sid Lowe : Sid Lowe (@sidlowe) Thievy to WBA an interesting one.
  • (12) Updated at 7.16pm BST 6.47pm BST Roger Kirkby emails from SoCal: Well me and my stat happy chappies are watching the game in a bar with bloody Mary's and breakfast sandwiches.
  • (13) says Sue Robinson of Hillier nursery, bringing out "Woodland Wilf", a fluorescent pink, pointy-headed chappie with two lurid orange buckets.
  • (14) It can’t always be cheeky fucking chappie and in your face.
  • (15) Now comes the long-awaited Chappie , which promises to be a 21st century Short Circuit – if the cult 1980s action-comedy romp had been set in Johannesburg and co-starred Die Antwoord .
  • (16) We’re charming chappies generally, we’ve made an institution of being nice to people.” • A midlife crisis “I’ve learned how to use the Twitter.” “We’re listening to you.
  • (17) Chappie sees the film-maker back on the streets of South Africa, with a cast that mixes local talent including Die Antwoord’s Yo-Landi Visser with Hollywood stars Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver.
  • (18) The Prince of Wales, who believes the Luftwaffe did less damage to London than modern architects , has been sniping at One New Change since 2005, when he wrote to the developers, Land Securities, hoping to get Nouvel off the job and have him replaced by one of his "traditionalist" chappies .
  • (19) Before I picked up Moby ’s new memoir, Porcelain , I thought of him as a small, bald, cheeky chappy who made tuneful dance music.
  • (20) When Jackman, playing a mulleted meanie named Vincent, expresses concern that Chappie might be unpredictable, he is presented as a villain rather than the voice of reason.

Covey


Definition:

  • (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
  • (n.) A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls.
  • (v. i.) To brood; to incubate.
  • (n.) A pantry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We strolled across springy heather and moss as wet as a sponge, and a strange cackling call of “go-back, go-back” rose on the wind: small coveys of red grouse whirred away from us.
  • (2) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
  • (3) That action signals this administration’s commitment to protecting the interests of transgender people in this context and sends a message to state officials that the federal government has taken a clear position on the substantive legal issues in the case, said Georgia State University law professor Russell Covey.
  • (4) Donna Covey, its chief executive, said: "Councils must ensure that those in greatest need of housing are given priority, so it would be unjust and inhumane to force refugees to the end of the queue simply because they were not born in the UK.
  • (5) Sometimes only a word or touch of the hand can covey the physician's support and understanding which are so meaningful for a terminally ill patient.

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