Doup vs Fasten - What's the difference?
doup | fasten |
(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.
----
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between doup and fasten
is that doup is (scotland) the bottom end of something; the human buttocks while fasten is .doup
English
Alternative forms
*dowpNoun
(en noun)fasten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Fasten your seatbelts!
- Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- to fasten a blow
- if I can fasten but one cup upon him