different between tup vs tui

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     This is the modern equivalent of smith forging where the limited force of the blacksmith has been replaced by the mechanical or steam hammer.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

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori t??.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?tu?i/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?t??i?/

Noun

tui (plural tui or tuis)

1. A species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand. [from early 19th c.]

   Synonyms: mockingbird, (both archaic) parson bird, poë, (both obsolete) poë-bird

Translations

References

Further reading

• tui (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• I-tu, ITU, Tiu, UTI

Daai Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)?j-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ?? (h?ee).

Noun

tui

1. water

References

• Helga So-Hartmann, A descriptive grammar of Daai Chin (2009)

Fijian

Noun

tui

1. king
2. principal chief

Hrangkhol

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)?j-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ?? (h?ee).

Noun

tui

1. water

References

• Trisha Borgohain (2017), Hrangkhol Nam Chonga Irchuna Lekhabu: A Learner's Book on the Hrangkhol Language, p.86, Centre for Endangered Languages, Tezpur University

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t?y (“water”). Cognates include Mandarin ? (tì) and S'gaw Karen ?? (h?ee).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tui??/

Noun

tui

1. water

Derived terms

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 44

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

tu?

1. genitive singular of t?

Adjective

tu?

1. masculine nominative plural of tuus
2. masculine genitive singular of tuus
3. neuter genitive singular of tuus
4. masculine vocative plural of tuus

Mandarin

Romanization

tui

1. Nonstandard spelling of tu?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tuí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tu?.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tuì.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Min Nan

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)?j-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ?? (h?ee).

Noun

tui

1. water
2. any liquid

Verb

tui

1. to flow

Ralte

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)?j-n ~ m-ti-s (“water”). Cognate to S'gaw Karen ?? (h?ee).

Noun

tui

1. water

Further reading

• Kosei Otsuka, A Basic Vocabulary and a Text of the Ralte Language (2016)

Rapa Nui

Verb

tui

1. sew

Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali.

Pronoun

tui

1. you (singular)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?twi/, [?t?wi]

Noun

tui m (plural tuis)

1. tweet (post of Twitter)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tui (ma class, no plural)

1. coconut milk

Tahitian

Noun

tui

1. earache
2. otitis

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [tuj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [tuj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tuj??]

Noun

tui

1. (colloquial, sometimes humorous, especially used among close friends along with ông or bà) Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam form of tôi

Usage notes

• Unlike its alternative form tôi, tui is not considered formal and can be seen used regularly by Central and Southern Vietnamese speakers.

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *t?y (“water”). Cognates include Khumi Chin tui and Chinese ? (tì).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tui???/

Noun

tùi

1. water

References

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 64