dup
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Symbol
dup
See also
Etymology
From Middle English don up (“to open”), equivalent to a blend of do + up. Compare don, doff, dout, dub.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʌp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌp
Verb
dup (third-person singular simple present dups, present participle dupping, simple past and past participle dupped)
- to open (a door, gate etc.)
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
- Then up he rose and donned his clothes, / And dupped the chamber door;
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
- He had seen, that Maundy Thursday afternoon, dupping their chamber door in all maaaaaaa innocence.
See also
- lub-dup (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
Interjection
dup
- interjection describing stamping
Derived terms
Further reading
Etymology
From Dutch dope, dopen, from Middle Dutch dôpen, from Old Dutch dōpen, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
dup
- (colloquial) to baptize, to christen
- Synonym: baptis
Derived terms
- mengedup
Further reading
- “dup” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Pronunciation
Noun
dup f
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