whupとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

whup (三人称単数 現在形 whups, 現在分詞 whupping, 過去形および過去分詞形 whupped)

1. (Southern US or African-American Vernacular, dialect) Alternative form of whoop (“to whip, thrash, または defeat”).
   • 1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga:

     We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.

   • 1986, August Wilson, Fences:

     I used to whup you four games out of five.
     What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.