pup
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pup (plural pups)
- 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.
- A young, inexperienced person.
- The new teacher is a mere pup.
- Any cute dog, regardless of age.
- My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
- A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
- (horticulture) A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
- (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.
- (chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
- Coordinate term: bulldog edition
- (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, 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, 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.)
- (chiefly Alaska) A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska.
- 1913, Alfred Hulse Brooks, Mineral Resources of Alaska, page 289:
- [...] stream gravels of Bear Pup are auriferous for a distance of at least 2 miles above its mouth.
- 1917, Hunter-trader-trapper, volume 34, page 15:
- At last we reached the head of Young creek, and following a "pup" stream we worked out way over a third divide and down into the great Chitina valley.
- 1987, Andreas H. Vassiliou, Donald M. Hausen, David J. T. Carson, Process Mineralogy VII: Applications to Mineral ..., page 225:
- […] the Iditarod district . None appear in the Dictionary of Alaska Place Names (27) and presumably are local pups or streams whose terminology is not currently used.
- 2013, R. Dale Guthrie, Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe:
- […] covered, not by the main stream many meters to the east, but by silt moving downslope from the west. […] It is common [to find] bones at the juncture of such side feeder systems, or "pups," as they are called locally. I have found that extant wild sheep (Ovis dalli) bones occur in similar pup streams in areas that today serve as winter ranges for sheep. […]
Derived terms
Translations
young dog, etc.
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young, inexperienced person
cute dog
short semi-trailer
Verb
pup (third-person singular simple present pups, present participle pupping, simple past and past participle pupped)
- (intransitive) To give birth to pups.
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References
- Julia A. Jackson, James P. Mehl, Klaus K. E. Neuendorf, Glossary of Geology (2005), page 526: pup A term used in Alaska for a small tributary stream.
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Noun
pup
Noun
pup m (plural pupi, feminine equivalent pupã)
Derived terms
Pronunciation
Noun
pup f
Etymology 1
Regressively derived from the verb pupa.
Noun
pup m (plural pupi)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
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
pup m (plural pupi) (regional, uncommon)
- bud
- Synonym: mugur
- something rounded or mound-like; hump, hunch; mound
- Synonym: gheb
- morel (mushroom)
- Synonym: zbârciog
- freckle; mole; birthmark
Declension
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Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫpъ (Russian пуп (pup), Polish pęp).
Pronunciation
Noun
pȕp m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏п)
Declension
Declension of pup
References
- “pup”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Noun
pup
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