DictionaryAI

gup

noun
USGUP/ɡʌp/

Pluralgups

2 meanings of gup

Practice

  1. 1
    nouncolloquialIndiacountable or uncountable
    Silly or gossipy talk that has little truth or sense to it.

    Like empty bubbles that pop the moment you touch them.

    The whole town was full of gup about who would win the election.

    Don't believe that gup. Nobody really saw a ghost in the old house.

    Similargossip, hearsay, chatter, blather, rumor

  2. 2
    nouncountable
    An elected leader in charge of a small local district in Bhutan.

    Like a mayor, but for a small group of villages.

    The villagers chose a new gup last spring.

    Their gup helped fix the road to the temple.

Practice

Can you tell the meanings of gup apart? Answer 4 quick questions from this page, or write your own sentence and AI will check it.

Origins

Meaning 1

From the Hindi word गप (gap), meaning gossip or idle talk.

Meaning 2

Borrowed from the Dzongkha word རྒེད་པོ (rged po), meaning "gup."