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caup
English
Noun
caup (plural caups)
- (Scotland) Cup.
- On Tintock Tap there is a mist / And in the mist there is a kist / And in the kist there is a caup / And in the caup there is a drap / Tak' up the caup and drink the drap / And set the caup on Tintock Tap.
Anagrams
- A cup, A-cup, Cupa, Puac, pacu
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cauf
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôf, IPA(key): /k??f/
Etymology 1
From corf (“basket”) (which is a homophone of cauf in some dialects).
Noun
cauf (plural cauves)
- A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
- 1926: Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports, volume 2, unknown page (Executive Committee)
- The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.
- 1926: Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports, volume 2, unknown page (Executive Committee)
References
- Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting the Hard Words of Whatsoever Language, Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue, by Thomas Blount (1662?; in 1670 Ed.)
Cauf, a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. - “†cauf” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Etymology 2
Phonetic respelling.
Noun
cauf (plural cauves)
- Pronunciation spelling of calf.
- 1845: Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day, pages 40–41
- An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves, six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs.
- 1845: Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day, pages 40–41
References
- Publications of the English Dialect Society, volume 52 (1886), page 26
CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.]”
Scots
Etymology 1
From Middle English calf (“young cow”), from Old English cealf, from Proto-Germanic *kalbaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?olb?o (“womb, animal young”).
Alternative forms
- cawf, caff, calf
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??f/
Noun
cauf (plural caur)
- calf (young cow)
References
- “cauf, ca'f, caav, cauve , n.1 and v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, retrieved 15 February 2019, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC
Etymology 2
From Middle English calf (“area behind the shin”), from Old Norse kalfi.
Alternative forms
- cauve, cawve
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??f/, /k??v/
Noun
cauf (plural cauves)
- (rare) calf (area behind the shin)
References
- “cauf, cauve, cawve, n.2”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, retrieved 15 February 2019, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC
Etymology 3
From Middle English caf, caff, kaf, kaff, alternative forms of chaf.
Noun
cauf
- Alternative form of caff
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