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Doup vs Loup - What's the difference?

doup | loup |

As nouns the difference between doup and loup

is that doup is the bottom end of something; the human buttocks while loup is a mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

As a proper noun Loup is

an extinct Algonquian language.

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.
    • ----

    loup

    English

    Alternative forms

    * loop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.
    • (Webster 1913) ----