pup

See also: púp, Pup, and PUP

English

Etymology

Clipping of puppy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʌp/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌp

Noun

pup (plural pups)

1. 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.

2. A young, inexperienced person.

   The new teacher is a mere pup.

3. Any cute dog, regardless of age.

   My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!

4. A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
5. (horticulture) A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
6. (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.

7. (chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.

   Coordinate term: bulldog edition

8. (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^[1], 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^[2], 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.)

9. (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

• bull-pup
• buy a pup
• cute as a speckled pup
• in pup
• mucky pup
• Pluto pup
• pretty as a speckled pup
• pupper
• pupperino
• pup play
• puppy
• puppy dog
• since Hector was a pup
• since Skippy was a pup

 

Translations

young dog, etc.

• Arabic: جَرْو (ar) m (jarw) (especially for dogs), غَلْو (ar) m (ḡalw) (for a wolf), هِجْرِس (ar) m (hijris) (for a fox)
• Asturian: cachorru (ast)
• Bengali: কুত্তার বাচ্চা (bn) (kuttar bacca)
• Bulgarian: ку́ченце (bg) n (kúčence)
• Estonian: kutsikas (et), penikas, koerapoeg, kutsa
• Finnish: pentu (fi)
• French: chiot (fr) m
• Galician: cadelo (gl) m, canciño m
• Georgian: ლეკვი (leḳvi)
• German: Welpe (de) m
• Hindi: पिल्ला (hi) (pillā)
• Italian: cucciolo (it) m
• Khmer: កូនឆ្កែ (koun chkae)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valp (no) m; (seal) selunge m

  Nynorsk: kvalp m, kvelp m; selunge m

• Portuguese: filhote (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕਤੂਰਾ (pa) m (katūrā)
• Romanian: cățel (ro) m, cățeluș (ro) m
• Russian: щено́к (ru) m (ščenók)
• Telugu: కుక్కపిల్ల (te) (kukkapilla)

young, inexperienced person

• Bulgarian: младо́к (bg) m (mladók)
• Estonian: kutsikas (et), noor (et), junga
• Romanian: novice (ro) m or f
• Russian: щено́к (ru) m (ščenók)

cute dog

• Bulgarian: ку́ченце (bg) n (kúčence)
• Estonian: kutsu
• Hungarian: kutyus (hu)
• Romanian: cățeluș (ro) m

short semi-trailer

Verb

pup (third-person singular simple present pups, present participle pupping, simple past and past participle pupped)

1. (intransitive) To give birth to pups.

Translations

to give birth to pups

• Bulgarian: оку́чвам (okúčvam), оку́ча (okúča)
• Estonian: poegima, pudenema (et), ilmale tooma, sünnitama
• German: werfen (de), jungen (de)
• Polish: szczenić
• Romanian: făta (ro)
• Russian: щениться (ru) (ščenitʹsja)

See also

• puppy
• pup tent
• sell someone a pup

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.

Anagrams

• PPU, Upp

Amanab

Noun

pup

1. broom

Aromanian

Noun

pup m (plural pupi, feminine equivalent pupã)

1. baby, infant

Derived terms

• pupul

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpup/
• Rhymes: -up
• Syllabification: pup

Noun

pup f

1. genitive plural of pupa

Romanian

Etymology 1

Regressively derived from the verb pupa.

Noun

pup m (plural pupi)

1. (informal, familiar, childish) kiss

   Synonym: sărut

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pup	pupul		pupi	pupii
genitive-dative	pup	pupului		pupi	pupilor
vocative	pupule			pupilor

Derived terms

• pupic

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)

1. bud

   Synonym: mugur

2. something rounded or mound-like; hump, hunch; mound

   Synonym: gheb

3. morel (mushroom)

   Synonym: zbârciog

4. freckle; mole; birthmark

   Synonyms: pistrui, aluniță

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pup	pupul		pupi	pupii
genitive-dative	pup	pupului		pupi	pupilor
vocative	pupule			pupilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫpъ (Russian пуп (pup), Polish pęp).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûp/

Noun

pȕp m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏п)

1. bud, burgeon

Declension

Declension of pup

	singular	plural
nominative	pȕp	pùpovi
genitive	pupa	pupova
dative	pupu	pupovima
accusative	pup	pupove
vocative	pupe	pupovi
locative	pupu	pupovima
instrumental	pupom	pupovima

References

• “pup”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Volapük

Noun

pup

1. doll, puppet