different between yup vs yip

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Noun

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer.
   • 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7 (page 147)

     But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...

   • 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling (page 278)

     Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.

Synonyms

• yep

Antonyms

• (informal: a yes): nope

Interjection

yup

1. (informal) Yes.

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) Clipping of yuppie.
   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage 2014, p. 448:

     Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels […]

Anagrams

• Pyu, puy

Catacao

Noun

yup

1. water

References

• ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?p/
• Hyphenation: yup
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

yup m (plural yuppen, diminutive yupje n)

1. yuppie (young upwardly mobile urban professional person)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

yip (plural yips)

1. a sharp, high-pitched bark

Translations

Verb

yip (third-person singular simple present yips, present participle yipping, simple past and past participle yipped)

1. to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice

Translations

Anagrams

• IPY

Boghom

Noun

yip

1. water

References

• John D. Bengtson, In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory (2008, ?ISBN

Kir-Balar

Noun

yip

1. water

References

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ?ISBN, page 38