stupe

noun
/stjuːp/

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin stūpa, variant of stuppa.

  1. derived from stūpa

Definitions

  1. A stupid person or (rarely) thing.

    • He thinks Santa lives at the South Pole? What a stupe!
    • George put the phone back on the hook in a hurry, his face burning. She doesn't know it's you, stupe. There's six parties on the line!
  2. A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally.

    • And get your plasters, and your warm stupes ready.
  3. To foment with such a cloth or sponge.

    • stupe it at least thrice a Day

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stupe. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA