Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bottom; buttocks; butt-end; end; extremity: as, a candle-doup.
- noun A loop at the end. See the extract.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland The
bottom end of something; the humanbuttocks . - noun Scotland A
cigarette butt .
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Examples
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BLARGH! i must hav a lol* stukt in mah intrtoobz… makin mah commentz lag = sry bout doup
:banghead: - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Wullie sits down at the fire, and awa 'wi' her yarn gaes the wife; but scarce had she steekit the door, and wan half-way down the close, when the bairn cocks up on its doup in the cradle, and rounds in Wullie's lug: 'Wullie
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin 'auld Provost Jervie's time -- and he had a quean of a servant lass that dressed it hersel', wi 'the doup o' a candle and a dredging box.
At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History William Andrews 1878
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I clamb up the bank, sat doun on ma doup on a bit hillock, an 'took the leeberty o' lichtin 'ma pipe.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869
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But eh! to see that puir negleckit bairn o 'his rin scoorin' aboot the toon yon gait -- wi 'little o' a jacket but the collar, an 'naething o' the breeks but the doup -- eh, wuman! it maks
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin auld Provost Jervie's time --- and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi 'the doup o' a candle and
The Antiquary 1845
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So, brushing the sawdust off the doup of one of them, and slipping it into my coat pocket, which was gey an 'large, I popped at leisure up the close to pay my neighbour a friendly visit.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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So, brushing the saw-dust off the doup of one of them, and slipping it into my coat pocket, which was gey an 'large, I popped at leisure up the close to pay my neighbour a friendly visit.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Jervie's time -- and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi 'the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box.
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Jervie's time -- and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi 'the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box.
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
chained_bear commented on the word doup
"Wellington's Provost Marshal became so infuriated with the women who believed that they could plunder with impunity that he once flogged more than a dozen at a time, giving them 'sax sic and thirty lashes a piece on the bare doup. And it was lang afore it was forgotten on 'em', according to a Highland soldier who witnessed the punishment."
—Annabel Venning, Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (London: Headline, 2005), 139
May 11, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word doup
That teh was teh alsome.
May 12, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word doup
sorry... that's me typing way too fast, as usual.
May 12, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word doup
No, no! It was adorable. Oh well. I suppose that's how teh cookie crumbles.
May 12, 2010
bilby commented on the word doup
My feeling is that this word belongs between shoo, boop and wop.
Ruzuzu belongs among crumbled cookies.
May 12, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word doup
Yes. It's true, bilby. Thank you. But I refuse to cry over spilled milk.
May 12, 2010
bilby commented on the word doup
I like that the examples find the word only in Scots and Lolcat.
March 28, 2011