gup
Pronunciation Noun

gup

  1. (India, colloquial) Gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather.
    • 1912, Angus Hamilton, In Abor Jungles: Being an Account of the Abor Expedition, the Mishmi Mission and the Miri Mission, London: Eveleigh Nash, chapter 7, [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015069413659;view=1up;seq=172 page 138]:
      Bazaar “gup,” too, speaking with the tongue of a lying jade on the eve of the expedition, had so added to the deadliness of the Abor reputation that one party of able-bodied men became panic-stricken when they realised the nature of the work before them, and disappeared in a night!
    • 2015, Nisid Hajari, Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, ISBN 9780547669212, chapter 8, gbooks bO5zCQAAQBAJ:
      The young man faithfully delivered what Jinnah called “the gup”—the day's gossip — and tried vainly to extract a newsworthy quote from the League leader.
Noun

gup (plural gups)

  1. An elected head of a gewog in Bhutan.
    • 1996, Dasho Yeshey Zimba, “Bhutan: Three Decades of Planned Development”, Ramakant, R.C. Misra (ed.), Bhutan: Society and Polity, Indus Publishing Company (1998), ISBN 8173870446, section 2, chapter 12, gbooks m8U94l6xHlYC:
      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.
    • 2006, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan, Penguin Books India, ISBN 9780670999019, part 3, chapter 13, gbooks T4BoEodH3JAC:
      The next stop was the house of the gup (the village headman), who was once the reputed strongman of Merak, famous for being able to lift a young bull yak and place it on his back.



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