wop

See also: woþ

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”). Contrary to popular belief, the term isn't an acronym of without passport or working off passage, which are backronyms delivered from the term.

Noun

wop (plural wops)

1. (UK, US, Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.

Synonyms

• (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, pizzahead, wog

Translations

person of Italian descent

• Bulgarian: жаба́р m (žabár)
• Danish: spaghetti c, spaghettiæder c, sortsmudsker c, fejlfarve c
• Dutch: spaghettivreter (nl) m, spaghettivreetster f, macaronivreter (nl) m, pizzavreter (nl) m
• Estonian: makaroniõgija
• Finnish: italiaano (fi), makaroni (fi), Luigi (fi)
• French: rital (fr) m, macaroni (fr) m
• German: Itaker (de) m, Itakerin f, Spaghettifresser (de) m, Spaghettifresserin f, Tschingg m (Switzerland, parts of Austria), Tschingili m (Baden), Itaka (de) m or f, Katzelmacher m, Katzelmacherin f, Makkaronifresser m, Makkaronifresserin f, Spaghetti (de) m (dated)

  Alemannic German: Tschingg

• Hungarian: digó (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: ウォップ (woppu)
• Korean: 이태리 놈 (Itaeri nom), 이탈리아 놈 (Itallia nom)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} gefker (ku)

• Macedonian: жа́бар m (žábar)
• Polish: makaroniarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: macarrone m or f, carcamano (pt) m or f, latacho m
• Romanian: macaronar (ro) m
• Russian: италья́шка (ru) m (italʹjáška)
• Spanish: tano (es) m, tana (es) f (Argentina, Uruguay), espagueti (es) m or f, bachiche m or f (Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador), italianini m or f, bachicha (es) m or f (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru)
• Swedish: spagge (sv) c, spaghettigubbe c
• Ukrainian: макаро́нник (makarónnyk)

Etymology 2

Verb

wop (third-person singular simple present wops, present participle wopping, simple past and past participle wopped)

1. Alternative form of whop (“to hit or strike”)

See also

• doo-wop
• molly wop
• wop-wops

 

Anagrams

• POW, PoW, pow

Middle English

Alternative forms

• weop, wope

Etymology

Inherited from Old English wōp, from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /woːp/

Noun

wop (plural wopes)

1. Lamentation, crying, or weeping.

Descendants

• English: woop, whoop

References

• “wọ̄p(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“clamour, weeping”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /woːp/

Noun

wōp m (nominative plural wōpas)

1. weeping, lamentation

Declension

Declension of wop (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wōp	wōpas
accusative	wōp	wōpas
genitive	wōpes	wōpa
dative	wōpe	wōpum

Descendants

• Middle English: wop, weop, wope
  • English: woop, whoop

Verb

wōp

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of wēpan

Torricelli

Noun

wop

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66