wop

See also: woþ

English

Etymology

From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɒp/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

wop (plural wops)

1. (Britain, US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.

Synonyms

• (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, 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
• French: rital (fr) m, macaroni (fr) m
• German: Itaker (de) m, Itakerin f, Spagettifresser m, Spagettifresserin 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

  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)

• 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

Verb

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

1. (Southern US) to physically hit, especially hitting a person with a hand

Anagrams

• POW, pow

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• wope, weop

Etymology

From Old English wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /woːp/

Noun

wop (plural wopes)

1. the action of or a moment of crying or weeping; lamentation

Descendants

• English: woop, whoop

References

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

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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
  • English: woop, whoop

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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