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

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. […]

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

• 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.

• PPU, Upp

pup

1. broom

pup m (plural pupi, feminine equivalent pupã)

1. baby, infant

• pupul

• IPA^(key): /ˈpup/
• 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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

pup

1. doll, puppet