tup

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A male sheep, a ram.
    — ... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter
  2. Two pence. uncountable
  3. The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer.
    — Those familiar with drop forging are accustomed to sizing drop hammers as 1 ton or 5 ton or whatever. This measure of the size is simply the weight of the tup. The total weight of the helve of No 2 is about 6.4 tons.
动词 v.
  1. To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.
    — Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.
  2. To have sex with, to bonk, etc. slang
    — I love her well enough to tup her, I suppose. A dangerous bit of business, that. She is as fertile as a bloody alluvial plain.
  3. To butt. English,regional,slang

词形变化

tups plural tups present,singular,third-person tupping participle,present tupped participle,past tupped past

词汇关系

衍生词
tupman

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.
词源 2
Clipping of tuppence (“two pence”).
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