doup
Americannoun
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the bottom, end, or butt of something.
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the buttocks.
Etymology
Origin of doup
1505–15; compare Old Norse daup
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Walter Scott
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 William Andrews
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 Carolyn Wells
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 John Lyde Wilson
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 James Parton
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