toupet

See also: Toupet

English

Noun

toupet (plural toupets)

1. Archaic form of toupee.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French toupet.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: tou‧pet
• IPA^(key): /tupɛt/

Noun

toupet m (plural toupetten or toupets, diminutive toupetje n)

1. toupee
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, “Death And Daphne,”, in Some Verse Pieces:

     From her own Head, Megwra takes
     A Perriwig of twisted Snakes;
     Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd,
     Like Toupets of this upper World […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

• haarstuk

French

Etymology

From Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.pɛ/

• Audio (CAN)

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Noun

toupet m (plural toupets)

1. tuft (of hair)
2. toupee
3. (colloquial) cheek, nerve

   Synonym: culot

Descendants

• → Catalan: tupè
• → Danish: toupé
• → Dutch: toupet
• → English: toupee, toupet
• → German: Toupet
• → Italian: toupet
• → Norwegian Bokmål: tupé
• → Romanian: tupeu
• Sicilian: tuppettu
• → Spanish: tupé

Further reading

• “toupet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French toupet.

Noun

toupet m (invariable)

1. toupee, hairpiece

Further reading

• toupet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• potute

Middle French

Alternative forms

• topet

Noun

toupet m (plural toupets)

1. tuft of hair on the top of the head

Descendants

• French: toupet (see there for further descendants)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)

Norman

Alternative forms

• tupé

Etymology

From Old French toupet.

Noun

toupet m (plural toupets)

1. (Jersey) tuft

Synonyms

• tun
• tus

Old French

Noun

toupet oblique singular, m (oblique plural toupez or toupetz, nominative singular toupez or toupetz, nominative plural toupet)

1. tuft of hair on the top of the head

Descendants

• → Old Galician-Portuguese: topete
  • Galician: topete
  • Portuguese: topete

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (toupet, supplement)