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pup

See also: púp, Pup, and PUP

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of puppy.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pʌp/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌp

Noun

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pup (plural pups)

  1. A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
    The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup.
  2. A young, inexperienced person.
    The new teacher is a mere pup.
  3. Any cute dog, regardless of age.
    My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
  4. A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
  5. (horticulture) A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
  6. (film, television) A kind of small spotlight.
    • 1976, A. Arthur Englander, Paul Petzold, Filming for Television, page 191:
      For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]
    • 2003, Christopher Neame, Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze, page 23:
      Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups.
  7. (chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
    Coordinate term: bulldog edition
  8. (sex, slang) Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).
    • 2017 April 23, “Success Failure”, in Silicon Valley, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos):
      It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy.
    • 2019 February 5, Mike Miksche, “Teaching Young Dogs Old Tricks”, in Slate‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-22:
      Mentorship, I learned from the Fog City pups, plays a huge role in their family business, where the pack hierarchy comes into play.
    • 2019 April 29, Christie Blatchford, “Christie Blatchford: What ’puppy play’ enthusiasts do behind closed doors shouldn’t be for our reading pleasure”, in National Post‎[2], Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 June 2024:
      (Pups are apparently different from "furries," who dress up in animal suits. And they are both different from "bunnies," which the author didn't explain and which I have neither heart nor stomach to Google.)

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Verb

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pup (third-person singular simple present pups, present participle pupping, simple past and past participle pupped)

  1. (intransitive) To give birth to pups.

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Amanab

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Noun

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pup

  1. broom

Aromanian

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Noun

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pup m (plural pupi, feminine equivalent pupã)

  1. baby, infant

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Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pup/
  • Rhymes: -up
  • Syllabification: pup

Noun

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pup f

  1. genitive plural of pupa

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Regressively derived from the verb pupa.

Noun

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pup m (plural pupi)

  1. (informal, familiar, childish) kiss
    Synonym: sărut
Declension
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Declension of pup
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pup pupul (niște) pupi pupii
genitive/dative (unui) pup pupului (unor) pupi pupilor
vocative pupule pupilor
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Etymology 2

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Uncertain; possibly an expressive formation (variant of pop; cf. also coc), or a substratum term (compare Albanian pupë (“bud”)), or less likely linked to (Vulgar) Latin puppa (“teat, nipple”). More likely ultimately from Proto-Slavic *pǫpъ (compare Serbo-Croatian pup (“bud”)) or Hungarian pup, although this would only explain one of the senses.

Noun

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pup m (plural pupi) (regional, uncommon)

  1. bud
    Synonym: mugur
  2. something rounded or mound-like; hump, hunch; mound
    Synonym: gheb
  3. morel (mushroom)
    Synonym: zbârciog
  4. freckle; mole; birthmark
    Synonyms: pistrui, aluniță
Declension
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Declension of pup
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pup pupul (niște) pupi pupii
genitive/dative (unui) pup pupului (unor) pupi pupilor
vocative pupule pupilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫpъ (Russian пуп (pup), Polish pęp).

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Noun

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pȕp m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏п)

  1. bud, burgeon

Declension

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Declension of pup
singular plural
nominative pȕp pùpovi
genitive pupa pupova
dative pupu pupovima
accusative pup pupove
vocative pupe pupovi
locative pupu pupovima
instrumental pupom pupovima

References

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  • “pup” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Volapük

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Noun

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pup

  1. doll, puppet
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