Chupse vs Steups - What's the difference?
chupse | steups | Alternative forms |
(Barbados) The sound produced by sucking air between the teeth, expressing displeasure, incredulity, etc.
* 1970 , Frank A Collymore, Notes for a glossary of words and phrases of Barbadian dialect?
* 1972 , Edward Samuel Maynard, Endogamy Among Barbadian Immigrants to New York City
* 1990 , Harry S Pariser, The Adventure Guide to Barbados?
* 2006 , Willi Chen, Under the Perfume Tree
(Barbados) To produce such a sound.
* 1973 , Caribbean Artists Movement, Savacou
* 1991 , Timothy Callender, It So Happen?
* 1994 , Peter Morgan, The Life and Times of Errol Barrow?
(Trinidad, dialect, onomatopoeia) To show disappointment, derision or disgust.
Steups is a alternative form of chupse.
As verbs the difference between chupse and steups
is that chupse is to produce such a sound while steups is to show disappointment, derision or disgust.As an interjection chupse
is the sound produced by sucking air between the teeth, expressing displeasure, incredulity, etc.chupse
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- There is the small effortless chupse of indifference; the thin hard chupse of mere disdain; the long, liquid, vibrating chupse which shakes the rafters and expresses every kind of defiance."
- What was apparent, however, was a certain apologetic attitude such as "he's an American (chupse ) but he's all right."
- The "chupse ," a sound formed by sucking in the air between one's teeth, may convey disgust, boredom, frustration, or a combination of all three.
- A child's sucking of his teeth, known classically as a Bajan "chupse ", when done in response to a parent's order to do something...
Verb
- But Elmina only chupse and say, "But Grandma, I like James, though. I can't help it, I like he bad...
- His mother chupse and reach for her pocketbook. "I going give yuh," she say, "And I going wait and see what happen."
- Whenever he did get this message Crawford would 'chupse' and say, "That mad man upstairs? Man, don't pay him no mind."