shutty uppy

English

Etymology

From shut up with -y added to both words, often in order to diminish its effect.

Interjection

shutty uppy

  1. (childish, rare) Shut up.
    • 1983, Molly Keane, “Bedtime”, in Time After Time, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1984, →ISBN, page 41:
      Baby June was still howling as she was carried up the steps. Through the clamour Leda’s Nannie voice came clearly to May in her hiding-place. . . . . “Icky baby shutty-uppy or Leda pinch her icky botty.” Baby June screamed suddenly. Leda laughed and smothered her with kisses.
    • 1999 December, Martin Kitts, “40 Winks”, in Tim Weaver, editor, N64 Magazine, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 70:
      ◅ Wakey Wakey the alarm clock. Shutty Uppy!
    • 2004 May 26, Dave013, “poker stars ??”, in rec.gambling.poker‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
      shutty uppy
    • 2007, Rachel Hauck, chapter 31, in Sweet Caroline: A Novel, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 248:
      I emerge from the bedroom. “Ta-da.” / Mitch looks around from the bookshelves, grinning, then laughing. “What? No mud mask?” / I pistol my fingers at him. “Shutty uppy.”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shutty uppy.
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