英和和英

名詞

cheups (複数形 cheupses)

1. Alternative form of steups
   • 2000, Merle Hodge, Crick Crack, Monkey, page 18:

     Ma awoke every morning with a groan quickly routed by a brief loud cheups.

   • 2003, Cahiers de la Femme - Volume 23, Issues 1-2, page 121:

     Tee notices that "all that Ma could not crush or confound with a barked word or surmount with her lioness strength, she reacted to with a cheups, more or less loud, more or less long" (Hodge 16).

   • 2013, Derek Walcott, Christopher B. Balme, Gordon Collier, Derek Walcott: The Journeyman Years. Volume 2:

     The other two are vaguely disappointed, who dare not confess their disappointment more loudly than a careful cheups, and a small band of intellectuals, expatriates, name-droppers who tend to damn them.