Stumed vs Stuped - What's the difference?
stumed | stuped |
(stum)
Unfermented grape juice; must.
* Ben Jonson
* Dryden
Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
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, year_published=1835
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, title=Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, Volume 1
, page=265
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, passage=Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum ,
And make it brisk champaign become. to ferment
to renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation
(Webster 1913)
(stupe)
(slang) A stupid person or (rarely) thing.
To foment with such a cloth or sponge.
As verbs the difference between stumed and stuped
is that stumed is (stum) while stuped is (stupe).stumed
English
Verb
(head)stum
English
Noun
- Let our wines, without mixture of stum , be all fine.
- And with thy stum ferment their fainting cause.
And make it brisk champaign become.
Verb
(en verb)- We stum our wines to renew their spirits. — Floyer.
References
Anagrams
* ----stuped
English
Verb
(head)stupe
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of .Noun
(en noun)- He thinks Santa lives at the South Pole? What a stupe !
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from (etyl) , variant of stuppa.Verb
(stup)- (Wiseman)