different between yup vs yus

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

Etymology 1

Dialectal form of yes.

Adverb

yus

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of yes.
   • 1892, from Punch, or The London Charivari:

     Yus, to live in dirt, I feel is a `orrid degradation; but one thing I'd like to know, is it wus than living on it?

   • 1922, Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, compilers and editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1922:

     Wych Street? Yus, of course I knoo Wych Street. Used to go there with some of the boys -- when I was Covent Garden way.

Etymology 2

Russian ?? (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ??? (?s?, “big yus”)

Alternative forms

• jus

Noun

yus (plural yuses)

1. Either of two letters, little yus (?) and big yus (?), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.

Translations

Etymology 3

See yu.

Noun

yus

1. plural of yu