Gup
noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather. India, colloquial, countable, uncountable
"Should this lull continue much longer, the consequence will be, that the security of some mercantile houses, for some time on the wave, will fail; and, if we credit the gups in the bazar, the crisis is rapidly approaching."
- 2 An elected head of a gewog in Bhutan.
"A chupen is a liaison agent between the section of the village which he represents and the gup (an elected head of a block of villages). […] The gups and maangi-aps have been a central feature of Bhutanese village life since the 17th century. The gup has traditionally been an intermediary between the community and the state."
Example
More examples"Should this lull continue much longer, the consequence will be, that the security of some mercantile houses, for some time on the wave, will fail; and, if we credit the gups in the bazar, the crisis is rapidly approaching."
Etymology
From Hindi गप (gap, “gossip; idle talk”).
Borrowed from Dzongkha རྒེད་པོ (rged po, “gup”).
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