different between supper vs duper

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sopere, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.

Noun

supper (countable and uncountable, plural suppers)

1. Food consumed before going to bed.
2. Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
3. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.

   a fish supper; a pizza supper

Synonyms

• (meal): dinner; see also Thesaurus:meal

Derived terms

• kitchen supper
• Last Supper
• Lord's Supper
• lupper
• brupper

Related terms

• soup

Translations

Verb

supper (third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)

1. To consume a snack before retiring.
2. To eat dinner (see above).

Translations

Etymology 2

sup +? -er

Noun

supper (plural suppers)

1. A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

Translations

Anagrams

• Ruppes, uppers

Danish

Noun

supper c

1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

supper m or f

1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

supper f

1. indefinite plural of suppe

English

Etymology

From dupe +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?p?(?)

Noun

duper (plural dupers)

1. a person who dupes another

Anagrams

• Dupre, Prude, drupe, perdu, prude, pured, red up, red-up

French

Etymology

From Middle French duppe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.pe/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /dzy.pe/

Verb

duper

1. to trick, fool, dupe

Conjugation

Descendants

• German: düpieren

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• drupe, perdu