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Variant ofwhip.
whup (third-person singular simple presentwhups,present participlewhupping,simple past and past participlewhupped)
- (Southern US or African-American Vernacular, colloquial, dialect)Alternative form ofwhoop(“to whip, thrash, or defeat”).
1937,Thomas Wolfe,Chickamauga:We had him stopped the year before, the time wewhupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: wetarred him out so bad he had to wait.
1939, John Steinbeck, “Chapter Sixteen”, inThe Grapes of Wrath,New York: Viking Press,→OCLC:Whyn't yawhup her, Ma?[…] Go on, give her awhup.
1972, Leon Barnett,Whup A Little Lovin' On Me / Angel In My Arms[1], J.E.K. International Records: 1972, Joe Gores,Dead Skip: A DKA File Novel, Random House,→ISBN, page31:He might have come after Bart[…] because he wanted towhup a nigger?
1986,August Wilson,Fences:I used towhup you four games out of five.
What you gonna do ... give me awhupping? You can'twhup me no more. You're too old.
whup (pluralwhups)
- (Southern US or African-American Vernacular, colloquial, dialect) Awhip.
1893, H. A. Shands,Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi, Published by the author,page68:Whup (hwup). Negro for whip.
1939, John Steinbeck, “Chapter Sixteen”, inThe Grapes of Wrath,New York: Viking Press,→OCLC:“You jus’ min’ your business, mister,” Ma said fiercely. “You’ll git awhup yourself. Now leggo, Ruthie.”
Variant ofwhoop.
whup
- Alternative form ofwhoop(“an exclamation, or representation of a shout or cry, expressing joy or surprise”).
1599, T. Cutvvode,Caltha Poetarum: or The Bumble Bee, London: Printed by Thomas Creede, for Richard Oliue,unnumbered page:The ſcantlin won,the winners muſt crywhup,
The goale is got,and now the game is vp.
1638, R. Brathwait, edited by Joseph Haslewood,Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal, London, published1820,page185:WHup[sic] (Fᴀᴜꜱᴛᴜʟᴜꜱ) all draw ny thee
That doe love thee, or lov'd by thee,
Joying in thy ſafe returning!
, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.