pup

From a shortening of puppy.

• IPA^(key): /pʌp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌp

pup (plural pups)

1. A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, 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.

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

• Upp

pup

1. broom

pup m (plural pupi, feminine equivalent pupã)

1. baby, infant

• pupul

Regressively derived from the verb pupa.

pup m (plural pupi)

1. (informal, familiar, childish) kiss

• 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
2. something rounded or mound-like; hump, hunch; mound
3. morel (mushroom)
4. freckle; mole; birthmark

• (bud): mugur
• (hump, mound): gheb
• (morel): zbârciog
• (freckle; mole): pistrui; aluniță

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