pup

Clipping of puppy.

• IPA^(key): /pʌp/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌp

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

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

1. (intransitive) To give birth to pups.

• puppy
• pup tent
• sell someone a pup

• PPU, Upp

pup

1. broom

pup m (plural pupi, feminine equivalent pupã)

1. baby, infant

• pupul

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

pup f

1. genitive plural of pupa

Regressively derived from the verb pupa.

pup m (plural pupi)

1. (informal, familiar, childish) kiss

   Synonym: sărut

• pupic

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.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /pûp/

pȕp m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏п)

1. bud, burgeon

• “pup” in Hrvatski jezični portal

pup

1. doll, puppet