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Webster 1913 Edition
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sup
sup
English
Verb
sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)
- To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
- Crashaw
- There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.
- Crashaw
Noun
sup (plural sups)
- A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
- 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, chapter 8
- A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.
- 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, chapter 8
Etymology 2
From Middle English soupen, suppen, Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe. More at soup.
Verb
sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)
- To take supper.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.
- 1879, Bram Stoker, Dracula
- I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Etymology 3
aphetic form of what's up (“How are you doing?”)
Interjection
sup?
- (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question).
- - Sup?
- Not much.
- - Sup?
Synonyms
Etymology 4
Adjective
sup (not comparable)
- (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.
Anagrams
Albanian
Alternative forms
- cup (Gheg)
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *tsupa, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱupos (compare English hip, Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos) ‘vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)’).
Noun
sup m (indefinite plural supe, definite singular supi)
Synonyms
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish sęp, Czech sup, Serbo-Croatian sȕp, and Russian сип (sip).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sup/
Noun
sup m
- vulture (bird)
Declension
Nabi
Noun
sup
References
- transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sûp/
Noun
sȕp m (Cyrillic spelling су̏п)
Declension
References
- “sup” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.
Noun
sup m (genitive singular supa, nominative plural supy, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
Usage notes
The usage of the 2nd declension pattern is limited to fairy tales and children stories.