PUP (pupped, pupping)

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Irregular inflected forms: pupped    , pupping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pup mean? 

• PUP (noun)
  The noun PUP has 2 senses:

1. young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf

2. an inexperienced young person

  Familiarity information: PUP used as a noun is rare.

• PUP (verb)
  The verb PUP has 1 sense:

1. give birth to (a puppy)

  Familiarity information: PUP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pup; whelp

Hypernyms ("pup" is a kind of...):

young mammal (any immature mammal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pup"):

puppy (a young dog)

Derivation:

pup (give birth to (a puppy))

Sense 2

Meaning:

An inexperienced young person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pup; puppy

Hypernyms ("pup" is a kind of...):

spring chicken; young person; younker; youth (a young person (especially a young man or boy))

• PUP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pup    ... he / she / it pups   
Past simple: pupped   
Past participle: pupped   
-ing form: pupping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give birth to (a puppy)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

pup; whelp

Context example:

the dog whelped

Hypernyms (to "pup" is one way to...):

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause to be born)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

pup (young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf)

 Context examples 

I come to it, my young war-pups.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This domain captures observations for fetal and pup morphological examinations.

(Fetal and Neonatal Developmental Morphology Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

He was doing it now, vociferating, bellowing, waving his arms, and cursing like a fiend, and all because of a disagreement with another hunter as to whether a seal pup knew instinctively how to swim.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have now investigated the lifespans of meerkats: a highly social mammal that lives in groups of up to fifty, where a single dominant couple produce around 90% of the pups.

(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)

They proved that a seal pup could swim or not swim at birth by stating the proposition very bellicosely and then following it up with an attack on the opposing man’s judgment, common sense, nationality, or past history.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The other hunter, Latimer, a lean, Yankee-looking fellow with shrewd, narrow-slitted eyes, held otherwise, held that the seal pup was born on the land for no other reason than that it could not swim, that its mother was compelled to teach it to swim as birds were compelled to teach their nestlings how to fly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)