tup

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tup"

Translingual

Symbol

tup

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Tupi languages.

English

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Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʌp/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌp

Etymology 1

From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.

Noun

tup (plural tups)

1. A male sheep, a ram.
   • 1790, Annals of Agriculture‎:

     ... 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?)

     This is the modern equivalent of smith forging where the limited force of the blacksmith has been replaced by the mechanical or steam hammer.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

     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

ram — see ram

head of a hammer

Finnish: sorkka (fi)

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.

   Synonyms: rut; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   Coordinate terms: (of females) blissom, oestruate

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     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.

   Synonyms: top up; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • 2001, Simon Hawke, A Mystery of Errors‎:

     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:

     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, of a ram) To butt.

Translations

of a ram: to mate

Catalan: amarrir (ca) Finnish: astua (fi)

fuck — see fuck

References

• 1902: Websters: - to butt.
• 1986: Concise Oxford: - hammer.

Further reading

The Langley Chase Flock – explanation of tupping

Etymology 2

Clipping of tuppence (“two pence”).

Noun

tup (uncountable)

1. Two pence.

Anagrams

• PTU, PUT, TPU, UTP, put

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tuppi, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *duppaz. Cognates include Finnish tuppi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtup/, [ˈt̪upː]

Noun

tup

1. sheath

Declension

Declension of tup (79)

	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	tup	tupūd
genitive (genitīv)	tup	tupūd
partitive (partitīv)	tuppõ	tupīdi
dative (datīv)	tuppõn	tupūdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	tuppõks	tupūdõks
illative (illatīv)	tuppõ	tupīž
inessive (inesīv)	tupsõ	tupīs
elative (elatīv)	tupstõ	tupīst

References

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “tup”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎ (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• tuhuupe (Mooring)
• töhop (Sylt)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tō + *haupaz, thus “to heap, in a pile”. Compare Low German tohoop, German zuhauf.

Adverb

tup

1. (Föhr-Amrum) together

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtup/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -up
• Syllabification: tup

Verb

tup

1. second-person singular imperative of tupać

Romansch

Etymology

Probably inherited from Gaulish. Compare Welsh twp (“stupid”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

tup m (feminine singular tuppa, masculine plural tups, feminine plural tuppas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) silly

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tǫpъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tûːp/

Adjective

tȗp (Cyrillic spelling ту̑п, definite tȗpī, comparative tȕpljī)

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

positive indefinite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		tup	tupa	tupo
genitive		tupa	tupe	tupa
dative		tupu	tupoj	tupu
accusative	inanimate animate	tup tupa	tupu	tupo
vocative		tup	tupa	tupo
locative		tupu	tupoj	tupu
instrumental		tupim	tupom	tupim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		tupi	tupe	tupa
genitive		tupih	tupih	tupih
dative		tupim(a)	tupim(a)	tupim(a)
accusative		tupe	tupe	tupa
vocative		tupi	tupe	tupa
locative		tupim(a)	tupim(a)	tupim(a)
instrumental		tupim(a)	tupim(a)	tupim(a)

positive definite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		tupi	tupa	tupo
genitive		tupog(a)	tupe	tupog(a)
dative		tupom(u/e)	tupoj	tupom(u/e)
accusative	inanimate animate	tupi tupog(a)	tupu	tupo
vocative		tupi	tupa	tupo
locative		tupom(e/u)	tupoj	tupom(e/u)
instrumental		tupim	tupom	tupim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		tupi	tupe	tupa
genitive		tupih	tupih	tupih
dative		tupim(a)	tupim(a)	tupim(a)
accusative		tupe	tupe	tupa
vocative		tupi	tupe	tupa
locative		tupim(a)	tupim(a)	tupim(a)
instrumental		tupim(a)	tupim(a)	tupim(a)

comparative forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		tuplji	tuplja	tuplje
genitive		tupljeg(a)	tuplje	tupljeg(a)
dative		tupljem(u)	tupljoj	tupljem(u)
accusative	inanimate animate	tuplji tupljeg(a)	tuplju	tuplje
vocative		tuplji	tuplja	tuplje
locative		tupljem(u)	tupljoj	tupljem(u)
instrumental		tupljim	tupljom	tupljim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		tuplji	tuplje	tuplja
genitive		tupljih	tupljih	tupljih
dative		tupljim(a)	tupljim(a)	tupljim(a)
accusative		tuplje	tuplje	tuplja
vocative		tuplji	tuplje	tuplja
locative		tupljim(a)	tupljim(a)	tupljim(a)
instrumental		tupljim(a)	tupljim(a)	tupljim(a)

superlative forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		najtuplji	najtuplja	najtuplje
genitive		najtupljeg(a)	najtuplje	najtupljeg(a)
dative		najtupljem(u)	najtupljoj	najtupljem(u)
accusative	inanimate animate	najtuplji najtupljeg(a)	najtuplju	najtuplje
vocative		najtuplji	najtuplja	najtuplje
locative		najtupljem(u)	najtupljoj	najtupljem(u)
instrumental		najtupljim	najtupljom	najtupljim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		najtuplji	najtuplje	najtuplja
genitive		najtupljih	najtupljih	najtupljih
dative		najtupljim(a)	najtupljim(a)	najtupljim(a)
accusative		najtuplje	najtuplje	najtuplja
vocative		najtuplji	najtuplje	najtuplja
locative		najtupljim(a)	najtupljim(a)	najtupljim(a)
instrumental		najtupljim(a)	najtupljim(a)	najtupljim(a)

Further reading

• “tup”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025