nup

See also: núp

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of Nupe Nupe

Symbol

nup

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nupe.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nʌp/
• Rhymes: -ʌp

Particle

nup

1. (colloquial, originally US, now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) No, nope.

   Antonyms: yep, yup

   • 2013 December 4, u/singloud, “Did anyone else have chronically unemployed parents or even parents who were just always at home?”, in Reddit‎^[1], r/raisedbynarcissists, archived from the original on 28 September 2023:

     I've suggested many jobs she could do but nup no way. She just was happy getting her freeloading money. I realised what a freeloader she really was when she started ranting about losing money when she got married to a guy with a job.

See also

not etymologically related

• post-nup
• pre-nup

 

References

• “nup, adv.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Jonathon Green (2024) “nup excl.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• NPU, Pun, UPN, pun

Chuukese

Adjective

nup

1. ripe
   • 2010, Ewe Kapasen God, United Bible Societies, →ISBN, Isaiah 28:4, page 948:

     Ningöchun ekkewe sou-emwen mi namanam tekia epwe ne ngawono ussun chok mwen uwan ekkewe ira fik ra kini o ochoch nupwen ra nup.

     The glory of the leaders is pride; it will become bad like before the harvest of the fig tree which they pick and eat before it is ripe.

Quiripi

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *nepyi, from Proto-Algic *nepii (“water”).

Noun

núp

1. (Unquachog) water

References

• Thomas Jefferson (1791) A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians (in Quiripi)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nup], [nup̚]

Interjection

nup

1. Informal form of nu.