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Doup vs Doupe - What's the difference?

doup | doupe |

As nouns the difference between doup and doupe

is that doup is (scotland) the bottom end of something; the human buttocks while doupe is (uk|dialect|obsolete) the carrion crow.

doup

English

Alternative forms

*dowp

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland) The bottom end of something; the human buttocks.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
  • *:on the eve of Ellison's wedding they took him as he was going into his house and took off his breeks and tarred his dowp and the soles of his feet and stuck feathers on them and then they threw him into the water-trough, as was the custom.
  • (Scotland) A cigarette butt.
  • *2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 53:
  • *:They were getting stuff, empty bottles and doups to smoke, getting matches off men to light them.
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    doupe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dob

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) The carrion crow.
    • (Webster 1913)