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Doup vs Roup - What's the difference?

doup | roup |

In scotland terms the difference between doup and roup

is that doup is a cigarette butt while roup is a sale of goods by auction.

As a verb roup is

to cry or shout.

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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    roup

    English

    Etymology 1

    Possibly from (etyl) , compare Dutch roepen, Low German ropen and German rufen.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cry or shout
  • (Scotland) To sell by auction.
    • (Jamieson)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outcry.
  • (Scotland) A sale of goods by auction.

    • Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain.

    Noun

    (-)
  • An infectious disease of poultry caused by Trichomonas gallinae
    • Synonyms
    * (pigeon) canker * (falconry) frounce * (avian) trichomoniasis

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