doup

American  

[doup] / daʊp /

noun

Scot.

1. the bottom, end, or butt of something.

2. the buttocks.

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Etymology

Origin of doup

1505–15; compare Old Norse daup

Example Sentences

O mickle yeuks the keckle doup,  An' a' unsicker girns the graith, For wae and wae the crowdies loup  O'er jouk an' hallan, braw an' baith.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

The parent duck has also disappeared; the drake you disposed of, Hamish, as the coward was lifting up his lumbering body, with fat doup and long neck in the air, to seek safer skies.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin' auld Provost Jervie's time—and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it herself, wi' the doup o' a candle and a drudging-box.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir

I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle, While round the fire the giglets keckle To see me loup; An', raving mad, I wish a heckle Were i' their doup!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Deil a wig has a provost of Fairport worn sin’ auld Provost Jervie’s time—and he had a quean of a servant-lass that dressed it hersel’, wi’ the doup o’ a candle and a dredging box.

From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William