gup n.1
gossip.
![]() | Memoirs of a Griffin I 271: ‘They say you are going to get married, is it true, Rattleton?’ ‘Oh, nonsense! mere Barrackpore gup and scandal’. | |
![]() | Rough Recollections III 203: ‘[H]e is fat and foolish, and moreover, sahib, the gup-chup – (gossip) – is, that his wife, in a jealous fit the other eve, because she saw him speak to me, gave him a blow with the dòee (ladle) on the shin, which has lamed him’. | |
![]() | Oriental Interpreter 94/2: GUP, or GUP-SHUP, the origin of gossip, to which, in India, it bears the closest possible affinity. | |
![]() | Patriotic Fund Jrnl 17 Feb. 165/1: ‘Well, have you heard the gup (gossip)?’. | ‘The crime of colour’ in|
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![]() | Out of the Meshes I 42: ‘We’ll drive to the club to hear the gup’. | |
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![]() | Fairer Than a Fairy II 52: ‘But it is always the season here for plenty of gup among the Ditchers, as the residents of Calcutta are called,’ Jack remarked. | |
![]() | Hard Lines III 135: Our Eastern empire is much addicted to what they term ‘gup,’ whereby they mean gossip, scandal. | |
![]() | Leader (Melbourne) 25 Nov. 29/3: ‘His old nabob of father got heaps of ‘loot’ in the early days. Bled old Rani Jopal of lakhs during the Mutiny,’ chirped the senior lieutenant. ‘All gup. (gossip),’ replied Captain Polhill. ‘Some bebecouf (idiot) invented that lie.’. | |
![]() | Secret Agent (1994) 65: The rest’s mere newspaper gup. | |
![]() | (con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 113: Gup: (Hind.—Gup). News. canteen gossip. | |
![]() | Bully Hayes 160: The gup in the purlieus of Hongkong was that he was making a fortune. | |
![]() | Indian Day 16: ‘Of course, we have only the newspapers and common gup to go by’. | |
![]() | Look Long Upon a Monkey 212: Valerie stared hard at Tony, beseeching him not to fall for that line of gup. | |
![]() | Bombay, my Bombay! 70: There was a great ha-ha besides gup-shup over cups of tea and coffee which my elder sister gladly prepared at that unearthly hour. | |
![]() | Truth, Love and a Little Malice 410: I cut out time-wasting pastimes such as prayer, meditation, religious ritual, gup-shup with friends, cocktail parties and dinners. |