cuip

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʰuçp/[1]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English whip.

Verb

cuip (past chuip, future cuipidh, verbal noun cuipeadh, past participle cuipte)

  1. whip, flog, lash

Noun

cuip f (genitive singular cuipe, plural cuipean or cuipeachan)

  1. whip
  2. stratagem, deceit

Etymology 2

Noun

cuip m

  1. genitive singular of cop

References

  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940), A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 169
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