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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.

Noun

tup (plural tups)

1. A male sheep, a ram.
   • 1790, [1]

     ... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter

2. The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer.
   • 1991, Dr J. McQuaid, "The 'Size' of the No.2 Hammer" in The Cutting Edge

     Those familiar with drop forging are accustomed to sizing drop hammers as 1 ton or 5 ton or whatever. This measure of the size is simply the weight of the tup. The total weight of the helve of No 2 is about 6.4 tons.

   • (Can we date this quote?) [2]

     This is the modern equivalent of smith forging where the limited force of the blacksmith has been replaced by the mechanical or steam hammer. The process can be carried out by open forging where the hammer is replaced by a tup and the metal is manipulated manually on an anvil.

   • (Can we date this quote?) [3]

     Rockwell hardness test: A method of measuring hardness. The hardness is expressed as a number related to the depth of the residual penetration. A test for determining the hardness of a material based on the depth of penetration of a specified penetrator in to the specimen under certain arbitrarily fixed condition of test. A hardness test where the loss in kinetic energy of a falling diamond tipped metal ‘tup’, absorbed by indentation upon impact of the tup on the metal being tested is indicated by the height of rebound.

Synonyms

• (male sheep): ram

Translations

Verb

tup (third-person singular simple present tups, present participle tupping, simple past and past participle tupped)

1. To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.

   • Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.

   • (Can we date this quote?) The Langley Chase Flock - explanation of tupping

     Tupping is the term used for when the rams cover the ewes. For our flock, this takes place in November when the ewes naturally come into season.

2. (slang) To have sex with, to bonk, etc.
   • 2001, Simon Hawke, A Mystery of Errors [4]

     I love her well enough to tup her, I suppose. A dangerous bit of business, that. She is as fertile as a bloody alluvial plain.

   • 2003, Pierre Delattre, Woman on the Cross [5]

     I was the one who convinced her you would not tup her, and that if you did you would never lie with her against her will.

3. (regional English, slang) To butt: said of a ram.

Synonyms

• (to mate): rut
• (to have sex with): Thesaurus:copulate with

Coordinate terms

• (to mate, of a female animal): blissom, oestruate

Translations

References

• 1902: Websters: - to butt.
• 1986: Concise Oxford: - hammer.

Further reading

The Langley Chase Flock – explanation of tupping

Etymology 2

Short for tuppence (“two pence”).

Noun

tup (uncountable)

1. Two pence.

Anagrams

• PTU, PUT, TPU, UTP, put

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish tuppi.

Noun

tup

1. sheath

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tup/

Verb

tup

1. second-person singular imperative of tupa?

Romansch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Adjective

tup m (feminine singular tuppa, masculine plural tups, feminine plural tuppas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) silly

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *t?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tû?p/

Adjective

t?p (definite t?p?, comparative t?plj?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. blunt, dull
2. obtuse (of an angle)
3. dull, weak (feeling, pain, sound etc.)
4. stupid, dull (person or action)
5. flat (nose)

Declension

English

Noun

tue (plural tues)

1. Archaic form of tui (the parson bird)

Anagrams

• ETU, TEU, Ute, ute

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Upper Middle High German tüejen, from Old High German tuon, from Proto-Germanic *d?n?. Cognate with German tun, Dutch doen, West Frisian dwaan, English do.

Verb

tue (third-person singular simple present tuet, past participle taa, past subjunctive täät, auxiliary haa)

1. to do
   • 1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     I tät scho gärn schpiele und jage.

     I'd rather play and run around.

   • 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ‘s Heiwili, p. 5:

     Dr Vater goht und lot's älei. / Hät dänkt, es täg dem Göifli guet.

     The father goes and leaves her alone. He'd thought it would do the child good.

Conjugation

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 85.

Blagar

Alternative forms

• tuwe

Numeral

tue

1. three

References

• A. Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tue?/, [?t?ue?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ue
• Syllabification: tu?e

Verb

tue

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

Anagrams

• etu, etu-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/
• Homophones: tu, tues, tuent, tus, tut, tût
• Rhymes: -y

Verb

tue

1. inflection of tuer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Participle

tue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of taire

Anagrams

• eut, eût

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu??/

Verb

tue

1. inflection of tun:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tuae.

Adjective

tue

1. feminine plural of tuo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu.e/, [?t?u?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.e/, [?t?u??]

Pronoun

tue

1. vocative masculine singular of tuus

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þúfa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²t???/ (example of pronunciation)

Alternative forms

• tuve

Noun

tue f (definite singular tua, indefinite plural tuer, definite plural tuene)

1. a tussock, a small mound or tuft formed by certain grasses and small shrubs.

   Det er mange tuer med blåbær i skogen bak huset vårt.

   There are many tussocks of blueberry in the woods behind our house.

Etymology 2

Noun

tue f (definite singular tua, indefinite plural tuer, definite plural tuene)

1. (dialectal, chiefly Trøndelag, nonstandard) alternative form of tvoge

References

• “tue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• etu, ute

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• tui (campidanese)

Etymology

From Latin t?, from Proto-Italic *t?, from Proto-Indo-European *túh?. Compare Italian tu, Portuguese tu, Spanish tú, French tu, Romanian tu, Aromanian tu, Corsican tù, Catalan tu, Sicilian tu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tue/

Pronoun

tue (second person singular)

1. you, thou