pup – English noun declension

English noun forms of pup

Noun: pup
Singularpup
Pluralpups

Sample Sentences

  • The dog has had that bed since he was just a pup.
  • The new teacher is a mere pup.
  • My pup likes to run as fast as he can, yet cannot always stop in time!
  • For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […] [1976, A. Arthur Englander, Paul Petzold, Filming for Television, page 191:]
  • Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups. [2003, Christopher Neame, Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze, page 23:]
  • It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a... a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leatherman, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck. Donald Duck's a gay guy who's been kicked out of the Navy. [2017 April 23, “Success Failure”, in Silicon Valley, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Russ Hanneman (Chris Diamantopoulos):]
  • Mentorship, I learned from the Fog City pups, plays a huge role in their family business, where the pack hierarchy comes into play. [2019 February 5, Mike Miksche, “Teaching Young Dogs Old Tricks”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024:]
  • (Pups are apparently different from "furries," who dress up in animal suits. And they are both different from "bunnies," which the author didn't explain and which I have neither heart nor stomach to Google.) [2019 April 29, Christie Blatchford, “Christie Blatchford: What ’puppy play’ enthusiasts do behind closed doors shouldn’t be for our reading pleasure”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2024:]
  • [...] stream gravels of Bear Pup are auriferous for a distance of at least 2 miles above its mouth. [1913, Alfred Hulse Brooks, Mineral Resources of Alaska, page 289:]
  • At last we reached the head of Young creek, and following a "pup" stream we worked out way over a third divide and down into the great Chitina valley. [1917, Hunter-trader-trapper, volume 34, page 15:]
  • […] the Iditarod district . None appear in the Dictionary of Alaska Place Names (27) and presumably are local pups or streams whose terminology is not currently used. [1987, Andreas H. Vassiliou, Donald M. Hausen, David J. T. Carson, Process Mineralogy VII: Applications to Mineral ..., page 225:]
  • […] covered, not by the main stream many meters to the east, but by silt moving downslope from the west. […] It is common [to find] bones at the juncture of such side feeder systems, or "pups," as they are called locally. I have found that extant wild sheep (Ovis dalli) bones occur in similar pup streams in areas that today serve as winter ranges for sheep. […] [2013, R. Dale Guthrie, Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe: The Story of Blue Babe:]

Etymology

Clipping of puppy.

Verbs referencing "pup"

French Nouns gousse.