doup

See also: do up

English

Alternative forms

• dowp

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daʊp/
• Rhymes: -aʊp

Noun

doup (plural doups)

1. (Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:

     on the eve of Ellison's wedding they took him as he was going into his house and took off his breeks and tarred his dowp and the soles of his feet and stuck feathers on them and then they threw him into the water-trough, as was the custom.

2. (Scotland) A cigarette butt.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 53:

     They were getting stuff, empty bottles and doups to smoke, getting matches off men to light them.

Anagrams

• PUDO, poud, updo

Scots

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʌup/

Noun

doup (plural doups)

1. the bottom of an egg-shell
2. buttocks, arse

   Doupie laddie - Batty boy