Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to have sexual intercourse; thus tupping adj.

1549		T. Chaloner (trans.) Erasmus Praise of Folie (1509) 42: [T]hese oldwomen, who beyng neuer so muche palled with longe age [...] will euer yet haue this prouerbe in their mouthes (life is life) still plaie the wantons, and still be tuppyng.
c.1576		Whythorne Autobiog. 126: Hes paid perfor between their legz it waz A tupping frier.
1604		Shakespeare Othello I i: Even now [...] an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. [Ibid.] V ii: Cassio did tup her.
1610		Jonson Alchemist V v: Did not I say, I would never ha’ you tupped / But by a dubbed boy, to make you a lady tom?
1635		H. Glapthorne Hollander IV i: Now the curse of a tedious virginity light on ye, you will not be tupped by a Dutch Ram.
1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 26 22–30 Nov. 225: She every day running a Tupping after the flock of Hee-Goates called Topers, who intend to keep her for to breed young Drumms for the Devil’s Magazine in Sodome.
1662		‘M.W.’ Marriage Broaker I iii: I’le give away my lambes, and sell away my dammes To Tuppe with an Ewe so bonny.
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 34: Then, before our chief could tup her / To please the God, send home the dame / As good a virgin as she came.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1934		‘J.M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana II 118: Good-bye to the days of / Untupped quiffs and quims.
1942		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 300: A clever inventor named Krupp / Wore a belt when he wanted to tup.
1984		Benjamin & Pearl Limericks Down Under 51: A redhead from Indigo Upper / Had all the boys trying to tup her.
1987		B. Chatwin Songlines 79: He [...] bragged about a lady pharmacist he’d tupped in Tennant Creek.
1999		Indep. Rev. 7 Aug. 5: When drunken abbots roamed the countryside tupping prioresses.
2000		Indep. Rev. 21 Feb. 7: Been tupping sheep up on Windy Poop.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 211: [M]any were the ladies of the quality who quite adored to be tupped by a tapir.

2. to render a cuckold [the ram’s horns n.].

1604–7

J. Day Law-Tricks I i: She was my wife, and by her meanes my head Was fayrely tupt.