gups
gups is the plural of gup.
Meaning of gup
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...
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...
Questions about gups
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- Gups is the plural of gup.
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