different between doup vs roup

English

Alternative forms

• dowp

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /da?p/

Noun

doup (plural doups)

1. (Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:

     on the eve of Ellison's wedding they took him as he was going into his house and took off his breeks and tarred his dowp and the soles of his feet and stuck feathers on them and then they threw him into the water-trough, as was the custom.

2. (Scotland) A cigarette butt.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 53:

     They were getting stuff, empty bottles and doups to smoke, getting matches off men to light them.

Anagrams

• poud, updo

Scots

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?up/

Noun

doup (plural doups)

1. the bottom of an egg-shell
2. buttocks, arse

   Doupie laddie - Batty boy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?p/

Etymology 1

Possibly from Old English hr?pan (“to cry out”); compare Dutch roepen, Low German ropen and German rufen.

Verb

roup (third-person singular simple present roups, present participle rouping, simple past and past participle rouped)

1. To cry or shout.
2. (Scotland) To sell by auction.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Noun

roup (plural roups)

1. An outcry.
2. (Scotland) A sale of goods by auction.

Derived terms

• roup sale

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain.

Noun

roup (uncountable)

1. An infectious disease of poultry caused by Trichomonas gallinae.

Synonyms

• (pigeon) canker
• (falconry) frounce
• (avian) trichomoniasis

Anagrams

• pour, puro