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tup
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.
Noun
tup (plural tups)
- 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
- 1790, [1]
- 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- This is the modern equivalent of smith forging where the limited force of the blacksmith has been replaced by the mechanical or steam hammer.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.
- 1991, Dr J. McQuaid, "The 'Size' of the No.2 Hammer" in The Cutting Edge
Synonyms
- (male sheep): ram
Translations
Verb
tup (third-person singular simple present tups, present participle tupping, simple past and past participle tupped)
- 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.
- (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.
- 2001, Simon Hawke, A Mystery of Errors [4]
- (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)
- Two pence.
Anagrams
- PTU, PUT, TPU, UTP, put
Livonian
Etymology
Akin to Finnish tuppi.
Noun
tup
- sheath
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tup/
Verb
tup
- 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)
- (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 ????)
- blunt, dull
- obtuse (of an angle)
- dull, weak (feeling, pain, sound etc.)
- stupid, dull (person or action)
- flat (nose)
Declension
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tump
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Etymology 1
Compare Welsh twmp, twm.
Noun
tump (plural tumps)
- (Britain, rare) A mound or hillock.
- R. D. Blackmore
- […] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
- R. D. Blackmore
Verb
tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)
- (transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
Etymology 2
Possibly from tumpoke.
Verb
tump (third-person singular simple present tumps, present participle tumping, simple past and past participle tumped)
- (transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
- (intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
- (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
Etymology 3
From Penobscot [Term?]; see tumpline for more.
Noun
tump (plural tumps)
- (uncommon) A tumpline.
Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
tump m (genitive singular tumpa, nominative plural tumpanna)
- butt, thump
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- "tump" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
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