different between dupe vs quarry

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dju?p/
• Hyphenation: dupe

Etymology 1

From French duper, from Middle French duppe.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

1. A person who has been deceived.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:dupe

Related terms

• dupery

Translations

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

1. To swindle, deceive, or trick.

Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of duplicate.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

1. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
2. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
3. (informal) A duplicate.

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

1. (transitive) To duplicate.

Synonyms

• double; see also Thesaurus:duplicate

Antonyms

• dedupe, halve

Anagrams

• E'd up, pued

Bube

Noun

dupe

1. ghost

Descendants

• English: duppy

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dupe, from Middle French [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dyp?/
• Hyphenation: du?pe

Noun

dupe m (plural dupes)

1. victim

Synonyms

• slachtoffer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyp/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /dz?p/

Verb

dupe

1. first-person singular present indicative of duper
2. third-person singular present indicative of duper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of duper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of duper
5. second-person singular imperative of duper

Noun

dupe f (plural dupes)

1. A person who has been deceived, see dupe.

Further reading

• “dupe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dup?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûpe/

Noun

d?pe n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (vulgar) ass

   Synonym: gùzica

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• currie, curry (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k(w)??i/
• Rhymes: -??i
• Hyphenation: quar?ry

Etymology 1

From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadr? (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres (“four”).

Noun

quarry (plural quarries)

1. (mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.

Synonyms

• delf

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• Irish: cairéal m
• Welsh: chwarel m

Verb

quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)

1. (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.

Synonyms

• (obtain stone by extraction): mine
• (extract by searching): dig, dig up, unearth

Derived terms

• quarrying (noun)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English quyrrey, querre, curee, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quirreie, from Old French cuiriee (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”) (influenced by cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“a hide”)), from coree (“entrails, viscera”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”).

Noun

quarry (countable and uncountable, plural quarries)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
2. (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
3. (countable) An object of search or pursuit.

Synonyms

• mark
• prey
• target

Translations

Verb

quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)

1. To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

Etymology 3

Alteration of quarrel (“diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window; square tile”).

Noun

quarry (plural quarries)

1. A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.

Derived terms

• quarry light
• quarry tile

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “quarry”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Further reading

• quarry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• quarry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia