Tup

Quick meaning: Tup is a noun meaning A male sheep, a ram.

Meaning

A male sheep, a ram.

More Meanings

1. The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer.
2. To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.
3. Two pence.
4. (slang) To have sex with, to bonk, etc.
5. (regional English, slang, of a ram) To butt.

Example Sentences

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.

I was the one who convinced her you would not tup her, and that if you did you would never lie with her against her will.

I love her well enough to tup her, I suppose. A dangerous bit of business, that. She is as fertile as a bloody alluvial plain.

... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter

Word Forms

• tups
• tupping
• tupped

Synonyms for tup

Depending on context, synonyms include ram, rut, bed, coit, coitize, dight.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ram, buck, billy, wether, shepherd, jumbuck.

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