different between tup vs tupo

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     This is the modern equivalent of smith forging where the limited force of the blacksmith has been replaced by the mechanical or steam hammer.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

Deliberate typographical error for typo. Compare tpyo.

Noun

tupo (plural tupos)

1. (humorous) A typographical error.

Anagrams

• pout, puto, up to

Catalan

Verb

tupo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of tupar

Anagrams

• puto

Finnish

Alternative forms

• TUPO

Etymology

Short form for tulopoliittinen (“related to income policy”) or tulopoliittinen sopimus (“income policy agreement”).

Noun

tupo

1. income policy agreement; a bipartite (between employers' and employees' central organisations) or tripartite (involving the government) national agreement on salaries and other general terms and conditions of employment, sometimes supported by the government with tax incentives or legislative measures.

Usage notes

• See usage notes under tulopolitiikka (“income policy”).

Declension

Derived terms

• tupoteatteri

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tû?po/
• Hyphenation: tu?po

Adverb

t?po (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. bluntly
2. obtusely
3. dully
4. stupidly

Spanish

Verb

tupo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of tupir.

Swahili

Verb

tupo

1. first-person plural of -po: we are (specifically there)