▪ I. ‖ gup, n. Anglo-Indian.
(gʌp)
[a. Hindustani gup.]
Gossip. Also in general colloq. use with the sense: silly talk, blather, nonsense.
| c 1806 Mrs. Sherwood in Life xxi. (1847) 357 No other amusement than hearing ‘the gup gup’, or gossip of the place where they may happen to be. 1848 J. H. Stocqueler Oriental Interpreter 94/2 Gup, or Gup-shup, the origin of gossip, to which, in India, it bears the closest possible affinity. 1868 Marryat (title) ‘Gup’. Sketches of Anglo-Indian Life and Character. 1882 B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. iv. 71 This occurrence was related..as one of the items of local ‘gup’. 1883 ― Pretty Miss Neville II. xvi. 23 Passing friends..related the local ‘gup’. 1884 Manch. Exam. 11 Nov. 8/2 The story..rests on pure bazaar ‘gup’, as they say in India. 1924 Galsworthy White Monkey ii. i, The usual ‘gup’ over the dividend. 1927 Punch 30 Mar. 340/3 Need I give the jury any more of this gup? 1942 S. Hope Sea Breezes 36 With little to do except drink sherbert and listen to the gup—gossip, which, incidentally, they didn't understand. 1962 ‘W. Haggard’ Unquiet Sleep v. 41 The gup in the business is that Hassertons have agreed. |
▪ II. † gup, int. Obs.
Also 6 goppe, guppe, 7 g'up, guipp, guep.
[? Contracted from go up; cf. gip int.]
a. A cry of anger or chiding addressed to a horse. b. An exclamation of derision, remonstrance, or surprise; often coupled with marry.
| a 1529 Skelton Dyuers Balettys ii. 17 Spur vp at the hynder gyrth, with, Gup, morell, gup. ― Poems agst. Garnesche ii. 36 Gup, gorbellyd Godfrey, gup, Garnysche, gaudy fole. 1538 Bale Thre Lawes 962 Goppe with a vengeaunce, how comest thu so aloft? 1546 J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 43 Gup with a galde backe gill, come vp to supper. 1598 E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 44 Mary and gup! haue I then lost my cap? 1604 Dekker Honest Wh. viii. Wks. 1873 II. 50 Mary gup, are you growne so holy? 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 101 Marry g'up with a murraine. 1631 P. Fletcher Sicelides Poems (Grosart) III. 80 Modestie? marry guipp: these are your modest creatures! 1682 T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens (1713) II. No. 56. 99 Marry guep! how tender-credited our Friend is! |