gup
/ɡʌp/
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Australia/ɡɐp/
gup noun: gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather.
Noun (1)
gup (countable and uncountable, plural gups)
- Gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather.
- Should this lull continue much longer, the consequence will be, that the security of some mercantile houses, for some time on the wave, will fail; and, if we credit the gups in the bazar, the crisis is rapidly approaching.1842 January, “Asiatic Intelligence – Bombay: State of Trade and Credit”, in The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, volume 37, number 145...
- Bazaar “gup,” too, speaking with the tongue of a lying jade on the eve of the expedition, had so added to the deadliness of the Abor reputation that one party of able-bodied men became panic-stricken when they realised the nature of the work before them, and disappeared in a night!1912, Angus Hamilton, chapter 7, in In Abor Jungles: Being an Account of the Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission, London: Eveleigh Nash, page 138
Noun (2)
gup (plural gups)
- An elected head of a gewog in Bhutan.
- A chupen is a liaison agent between the section of the village which he represents and the gup (an elected head of a block of villages). […] The gups and maangi-aps have been a central feature of Bhutanese village life since the 17th century. The gup has traditionally been an intermediary between...1996, Dasho Yeshey Zimba, “Bhutan: Three Decades of Planned Development”, in R.C. Misra, M.A. Ramakant, editors, Bhutan: Society and Polity, Indus Publishing Company, published 1998, →ISBN, section...
- The next stop was the house of the gup (the village headman), who was once the reputed strongman of Merak, famous for being able to lift a young bull yak and place it on his back.2006, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan, Penguin Books India, part 3, chapter 13, 173
Proper noun capitalized: GuP
GuP
- Initialism of Girls und Panzer.
Examples of gup in a sentence
- The young man faithfully delivered what Jinnah called “the gup”—the day's gossip — and tried vainly to extract a newsworthy quote from the League leader.2015, Nisid Hajari, chapter 8, in Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company...
- The gup has traditionally been an intermediary between the community and the state.1996, Dasho Yeshey Zimba, “Bhutan: Three Decades of Planned Development”, in R.C. Misra, M.A. Ramakant, editors, Bhutan: Society and...
Forms of gup
| plural | gups |
|---|---|
| alternative form | gap |
Origin of gup
Borrowed from Hindi गप (gap, “gossip; idle talk”).
Borrowed from Dzongkha རྒེད་པོ (rged po, “gup”).
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Words that rhyme with gup
Questions about gup
- What does gup mean?
- Gup means gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather.
- How do you use gup in a sentence?
- The young man faithfully delivered what Jinnah called “the gup”—the day's gossip — and tried vainly to extract a newsworthy quote from the League leader.
- What part of speech is gup?
- Gup can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gup?
- Gup is pronounced /ɡʌp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of gup?
- The plural of gup is gups.
Words near gup in the dictionary
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