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Dout vs Doup - What's the difference?

dout | doup |

As nouns the difference between dout and doup

is that dout is while doup is (scotland) the bottom end of something; the human buttocks.

As a verb dout

is (transitive|dialectal|or|obsolete) to put out; quench; extinguish; douse.

dout

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
    • The fire she lit was fanned rather than douted . ? Snowden.
    Related terms
    * douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke. ----

    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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