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doups

doups is the plural of doup.

Meaning of doup

Noun

doup (plural doups)

  1. (Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.
    • 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.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16
  2. (Scotland) A cigarette butt.
    • They were getting stuff, empty bottles and doups to smoke, getting matches off men to light them.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 53

Questions about doups

What is doups the plural of?
Doups is the plural of doup.

Words near doups in the dictionary

  1. doupion
  2. doupioni
  3. doupions
  4. douppioni
  5. douppionis
  6. doups
  7. dour
  8. doura
  9. dourada
  10. douradas
  11. dourah

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