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English

Etymology

From a shortening of puppy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

pup (plural pups)

1. A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, or shark, or the young of certain other animals.

   The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup.

2. A young, inexperienced person.

   The new teacher is a mere pup.

3. Any cute dog, regardless of age.

   My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!

4. A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
5. (horticulture) A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
6. (film, television) A kind of small spotlight.
   • 1976, A. Arthur Englander, ?Paul Petzold, Filming for Television (page 191)

     For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]

   • 2003, Christopher Neame, Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze (page 23)

     Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups.

Translations

Verb

pup (third-person singular simple present pups, present participle pupping, simple past and past participle pupped)

1. (intransitive) To give birth to pups.

Translations

See also

• puppy
• pup tent
• sell someone a pup

Anagrams

• Upp

Amanab

Noun

pup

1. broom

Aromanian

Noun

pup m (plural pupi, feminine equivalent pupã)

1. baby, infant

Derived terms

• pupul

Romanian

Etymology 1

Regressively derived from the verb pupa.

Noun

pup m (plural pupi)

1. (informal, familiar, childish) kiss

Synonyms

• s?rut

Derived terms

• pupic

Etymology 2

Uncertain; possibly an expressive formation (variant of pop; cf. also coc), or a substratum term (compare Albanian pupë (“bud”)), or less likely linked to (Vulgar) Latin puppa (“teat, nipple”). More likely ultimately from Proto-Slavic *p?p? (compare Serbo-Croatian pup (“bud”)) or Hungarian pup, although this would only explain one of the senses.

Noun

pup m (plural pupi)

(regional, uncommon)

1. bud
2. something rounded or mound-like; hump, hunch; mound
3. morel (mushroom)
4. freckle; mole; birthmark

Synonyms

• (bud): mugur
• (hump, mound): gheb
• (morel): zbârciog
• (freckle; mole): pistrui; aluni??

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?p? (Russian ??? (pup), Polish p?p).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûp/

Noun

p?p m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. bud, burgeon

Declension

References

• “pup” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Volapük

Noun

pup

1. doll, puppet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pju?/

Alternative forms

• pew

Verb

pue (third-person singular simple present pues, present participle puing, simple past and past participle pued)

1. (dated, intransitive) To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.

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

   • The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     The birds likewise with chirps and puing could / Cackling and chattering that of Jove beseech.

Related terms

• peevish

Asturian

Verb

pue

1. third-person singular present indicative of poder

Finnish

Verb

pue

1. Indicative present connegative form of pukea.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of pukea.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of pukea.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pu, pues, puent, pus, put, pût

Verb

pue

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

Anagrams

• peu

Warembori

Noun

pue

1. pig

References

• Donohue, Mark. Warembori grammar sketch. Sydney: Univ. iii+70pp. (1999).