Definitions for tup

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Spelling: [tuhp]
IPA: /tʌp/

Tup is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in tup (ptu).

Definitions for tup

noun

  1. Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
  2. the head of a falling hammerlike mechanism, as of a steam hammer or pile driver.

verb (used with object)

  1. Chiefly British. (of a ram) to copulate with (a ewe).

verb (used without object)

  1. Chiefly British. (of a ewe) to copulate.

Origin of tup

1300-50; Middle English tope, tupe ram, of obscure origin

Examples for tup

Start the tup in his own rough region, and we will be bound to say he will give the hounds and their followers a scramble.

The shearling tup is then a 2-shear tup, and the dinmont is a wether, but more correctly a 2-shear wether.

Tuving, strip in the boat nearest the gunwale; from tuk-, to stop a motion; tup, he makes it fast.

Little Mildred was very sad that she was not allowed to take him his “tup of toffee.”

Mattie has been twice at the door wi' the dinner, and weel for you it was a tup's head, for that canna suffer by delay.

As if I mattered a tup's head, the silly gomeril, bless him!

Neither Davy nor tup will know that Im slipping in half a minute of doze.

Word Value for tup
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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