skaup

Old Norse

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, a derivative of *skeubaną (“to drive, push”). Related to Old High German scoph.

Noun

skaup n

  1. mockery

References
  • “skaup”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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