What's the difference between chappie and crappie?

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.

Crappie


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in the rivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. There are several species.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) The abandon of comedy is always there, though, the feeling of, “Fuck it, let’s try that TONIGHT!” because the audience’s expectations are different at a late-night comedy thing and they don’t mind crappy props and people reading scripts, and if it dies there’s always tomorrow.
  • (3) Without trying to sound arrogant, hopefully the awards will be an opportunity to talk to our contemporaries as peers, not just a crappy prison project, and say, 'This is what you can do'."
  • (4) Only these ones didn't have big pictures of Kate and Wills, but focused on things such as their own wages and crappy working conditions .
  • (5) "I decided I didn't want to have a crappy job like that," he says.
  • (6) It's been four long months since the Oscar Pistorius bail hearing thing, and just as we were forgetting just how crappy the internet connections are in Johannestoria, the Mandela story breaks.
  • (7) Suggesting that someone is doing a bad job while also implying that you would do a better job but also refusing to offer to do the job, or even to help, is a pretty crappy stance, and sounds a lot like someone who probably doesn’t have any friends.
  • (8) 8.30pm BST 30 min: Silva wins a free-kick, 30-odd yards from goal … 8.30pm BST 28 min: "How much do you think the high scoring tournament we've had so far has been down to not having a crappy new ball to get used to?"
  • (9) Lots of people invented crappy click-bait sites, and they’ve quickly dropped off the map.
  • (10) In The Wolf Of Wall Street, there's a shot of an honest FBI agent riding the subway home on his crappy government wage, while his day job is chasing down stone-hearted penny-stock cheats who make in a moment what he earns in a decade.
  • (11) One of Savile Row's bespoke tailors told the Times: "If the bespoke businesses were driven out by crappy retail stores selling poor-quality clothes, Savile Row's name would be irreparably damaged."
  • (12) Otherwise they have been characterised as overly sexualised, inherently stupid, hooked to crappy talent shows, computer games, screens, lacking in basic skills, lazy, rude and vain.
  • (13) But will she bother with crappy old England now she's destined for Hollywood?
  • (14) The Philly defenders were out in force, too: daveweigel (@daveweigel) Philadelphia > your crappy city.
  • (15) "She stayed in the same crappy places as the rest of us and mucked in and was fine about basically taking no money so what we had could go on the film.
  • (16) The journey goes something like this: Sit in cold, crappy station with overpriced food until slow train to Peterborough arrives.
  • (17) I don’t think any of them had worked in Poland, so they didn’t qualify.” It’s hardly worth it for the “crappy money” on offer, he said – but by registering they qualified for free healthcare.
  • (18) The visitors will obviously sniff at our crappy past, so we'd better make a show of it – "Ha-ha, these old things?
  • (19) If you have a crappy boss and she's a woman, the conclusion is "I had a crappy female boss, so female bosses are crappy."
  • (20) The problem isn't the fact that some female bosses suck, it's that if you have a crappy boss and he's a man, the conclusion is "I had a crappy boss".

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