nup
See also: núp
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nup
- (colloquial, originally US, now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) No, nope.
- 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.
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not etymologically related
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- “nup, adv.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - Jonathon Green (2024) “nup excl.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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nup
- 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.
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From Proto-Algonquian *nepyi, from Proto-Algic *nepii (“water”).
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núp
- (Unquachog) water
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- Thomas Jefferson (1791) A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians (in Quiripi)
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nup
- Informal form of nu.