skaup

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Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skub-, a derivative of *skeubaną (“to drive, push”). Related to Old High German scoph.

Noun[edit]

skaup n

  1. mockery

References[edit]

  • “skaup”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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