yup

See also: yúp and YUP

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʌp/, [jʌp̚]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌp

Etymology 1

Representing yeah pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end (excrescent IPA^(key): /p/). Compare yep, nope, welp, and ope.

Noun

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) A yes; an affirmative answer.
   • 1981, Patrick F. McManus, Jack Samson, A Fine and Pleasant Misery, →ISBN, page 196:

     One was either a Yup or a Nope, depending upon his answer to that age-old question, "Gotcher deer yet?" I, of course, was still a Nope. Although Yups and Nopes looked pretty much alike they were as different as mallards from mongooses.

   • 1984, Graduating engineer, Volumes 6-7, page 147:

     But you positively must have much, much more than the laconic "yups" and "nups" of the John Waynes and Gary Coopers...

   • 1999, Caitlyn's Cowboy, →ISBN, page 33:

     She'd ask him a question that couldn't be answered by a "yup" or a "nope.

   • 2002, Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi, Greg Proops, In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave, →ISBN:

     It was just Yup or Nope. One thing I did notice, though, was that there was no pattern to the Yups and Nopes.

   • 2003, Susie Moloney, The Dwelling, page 278:

     Petey's end was all yups and nopes. And an okay.

   • 2015, Sarah Price, Second Chances: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, →ISBN:

     His hands moved, gesturing towards the two bidders, enticing them to raise their stakes against each other, as he chanted a litany of numbers followed by “going once, going twice” only to be followed by a resounding “yup” as he turned, alternately, towards each of the two men.

   • 2017 August 17, Michael Siebert, “Picking the bones at Smurfit-Stone”, in Missoula Independent:

     A rotating cast of auctioneers unleashed a torrent of increasingly high bids, speaking at a machine gun's pace while a chorus of increasingly aggressive "yups" emerged from the audience.

Synonyms

• yep

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “informal: a yes”): nope

Interjection

yup

1. (informal) Yes.

Translations

(informal) yes

• Arabic: نَعَم (ar) (naʕam), إِي (ar) (ʔī)

  Egyptian Arabic: اه (aah)

• Czech: jo (cs)
• Dutch: jep, jup
• Finnish: jep (fi), joo (fi)
• French: ouais (fr), ouep (fr)
• German: jo (de)
• Ingrian: jaaha
• Italian: sine (it), già (it)
• Japanese: うん (ja) (un), ああ (ja) (aa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jepp

• Persian: آره (fa)
• Polish: no (pl)
• Portuguese: sim (pt)
• Romanian: dap (ro)
• Russian: угу́ (ru) (ugú), ага́ (ru) (agá)
• Serbo-Croatian: aha
• Spanish: síp (es)
• Swedish: jupp, japp (sv)
• Turkish: he (tr)

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

yup (plural yups)

1. (informal) Clipping of yuppie.
   • 2008, Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World, →ISBN:

     What we have these days is a diverse spectrum of yuppiness: guppies, buppies, indie yups, paleo-yups, luxe yups, schlub yups, dharma yups, tyro yups, crypto-yups.

   • 2010, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River, →ISBN:

     He idled at a red light, saw two yups in matching cranberry crewnecks and khaki cargo shorts sitting on the pavement outside what used to be Primo's Pizza.

   • 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:

     Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels […]

Anagrams

• Pyu, puy

Catacao

Noun

yup

1. water

References

• Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 261

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʏp/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: yup
• Rhymes: -ʏp

Noun

yup m (plural yuppen, diminutive yupje n)

1. yuppie (young upwardly mobile urban professional person)