gup
USGUP/ɡʌp/
Pluralgups
- 1Idle gossip or rumor; nonsensical, silly talk amounting to little more than blather.
Like weeds in a garden, gup spreads faster the more people pass it along.
Half of what she heard at the market was just gup, repeated and exaggerated.
The newspaper printed nothing but gup about the actor's private life.
- 2The elected head of a gewog, a block-level administrative district, in Bhutan.
Like an elected mayor, but presiding over a rural Bhutanese subdistrict rather than a town.
The newly elected gup pledged to improve irrigation across the valley.
Each gup represents their community at the district development meetings.
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Origins
Meaning 1
From Hindi गप (gap), meaning "gossip" or "idle talk."
Meaning 2
Borrowed from Dzongkha རྒེད་པོ (rged po, "gup").