Dop vs Dowp - What's the difference?

dop | dowp |

As a verb dop

is .

(en noun)

(South Africa, slang). A drink.

Let's go to the bar for a dop .

(South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.

Give me a dop of brandy.

(obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.

(Ben Jonson)

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

* (cup in which diamond is cut) doop

(dopp)

(South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)

I dopped my exams.

(South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.

* 2004 , Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game (page 170)

They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.

To dip.

(Walton)

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(en noun)