dup

From Middle English don up (“to open”), equivalent to a blend of do +‎ up. Compare don, doff, dout, dub.

• IPA^(key): /dʌp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌp

dup (third-person singular simple present dups, present participle dupping, simple past and past participle dupped)

1. to open (a door, gate etc.)
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     Then up he rose and donned his clothes, / And dupped the chamber door;

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:

     He had seen, that Maundy Thursday afternoon, dupping their chamber door in all maaaaaaa innocence.

• lub-dup (etymologically unrelated)

• PDU, PUD, Pud, UDP, pud

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdup]
• Rhymes: -up
• Homophone: dub

dup

1. interjection describing stamping

• dup in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• dup in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Dutch dope, dopen, from Middle Dutch dôpen, from Old Dutch dōpen, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʊp]
• Hyphenation: dup

dup

1. (colloquial) to baptize, to christen

   Synonym: baptis

• “dup” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /dup/
• Rhymes: -up
• Syllabification: dup
• Homophone: dób

dup f

1. genitive plural of dupa