dupe

dupe

See also: dupé, dupę, and düpe

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːp/, (with yod coalescence) IPA^(key): /dʒuːp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /duːp/

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    (file)

• Rhymes: -uːp
• Hyphenation: dupe

Etymology 1

From French duper, from Middle French duppe, alteration of huppe (“hoopoe”), from Latin, onomatopoeic.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

1. A person who has been deceived.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dupe

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 55, in Pride and Prejudice, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585:

     It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley's pretended regard.

Related terms

• dupery

Translations

deceived person

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: лековерник m (lekovernik), будала (bg) m (budala) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: napálený m, oklamaný m, podvedený m Dutch: gedupeerde (nl) m or f, bedrogene (nl) m or f Esperanto: trompito, trompato Finnish: houkka (fi) Greek: κορόιδο (el) n (koróido), αγαθιάρης (el) m (agathiáris) Hebrew: פראייר‎ (he) m (frayer) Hungarian: balek (hu), palimadár Ido: dupo (io) Polish: naiwniak (pl) m, naiwniaczka (pl) f, naiwniaczek (pl) m Portuguese: ludibriado (pt) m Russian: простофи́ля (ru) m or f (prostofílja), несообрази́тельный челове́к m (nesoobrazítelʹnyj čelovék), жертва́ обма́на f (žertvá obmána), (partly) легкове́рный челове́к m (lexkovérnyj čelovék), фра́ер (ru) m (frájer) (slang) Spanish: incauto (es), engrupido (es), engañado (es) m Yiddish: יאָלד‎ m (yold)

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

1. To swindle, deceive, or trick.

Translations

to swindle, deceive, or trick

Arabic: يخدع‎ Bulgarian: мамя (bg) (mamja), измамвам (bg) (izmamvam) Chinese: Mandarin: 欺騙／欺骗 (zh), 上當／上当 (zh) Czech: oklamat (cs), napálit (cs) Dutch: duperen (nl), belazeren (nl) Esperanto: trompi, dupi Finnish: puijata (fi), höynäyttää (fi), narrata (fi) French: duper (fr) Galician: enfoumar (gl), enganar (gl) German: überlisten (de), übertölpeln (de) Greek: κοροϊδεύω (el) (koroïdévo), εξαπατώ (el) (exapató) Hungarian: rászed (hu), becsap (hu), átvág (hu), palira vesz Ido: dupigar (io) Indonesian: menipu (id), mengakali (id), membodohi (id), memperdaya (id) Norwegian: dupere Polish: oszukiwać (pl) Portuguese: enganar (pt), defraudar (pt) Russian: обма́нывать (ru) impf (obmányvatʹ), одура́чивать (ru) impf (oduráčivatʹ), вводи́ть в заблужде́ние (ru) impf (vvodítʹ v zabluždénije), (partly) ловчи́ть (ru) impf (lovčítʹ), (informal) надува́ть (ru) impf (naduvátʹ), (informal) разводи́ть (ru) impf (razvodítʹ), (informal) кида́ть (ru) impf (kidátʹ) Slovak: podviesť, oklamať Spanish: engañar (es) Swedish: dupera (sv), lura (sv) Turkish: aldatmak (tr), kandırmak (tr), keklemek (slang), söğüşlemek (tr) (slang)

Etymology 2

Clipping of duplicate.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

1. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
2. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
3. (informal) A duplicate.
4. (informal, TikTok) A counterfeit; a fake.
   • 2020 March 1, Megan Graham, “TikTok teens are obsessed with fake luxury products”, in CNBC‎:

     TikTok could potentially be liable if lots of users are directing other users to the sales of dupes, she said, and she said if users have an affiliate relationship with the sellers of counterfeit goods, they could also potentially be liable.

Derived terms

• dedupe
• slash dupe

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

1. (transitive) To duplicate.

   Synonyms: double; see also Thesaurus:duplicate

   Antonyms: dedupe, halve

   Can you dupe this photo for me?

   • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 379:

     That night, a shaken camera operator dupes the tape and leaks a copy to the press.

Anagrams

• E'd up, pued

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Bube

Noun

dupe

1. ghost

Descendants

• English: duppy

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dupe, from Middle French [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdypə/
• Hyphenation: du‧pe

Noun

dupe m (plural dupes)

1. victim

Synonyms

• slachtoffer

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyp/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [dzʏp]
• Rhymes: -yp

Noun

dupe f (plural dupes)

1. a person who has been deceived

   être dupe ― to be taken in, be fooled, be duped

Usage notes

• A negative polarity item, very often found in the construction ne pas être dupe.

Verb

dupe

1. inflection of duper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “dupe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dupę.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dûpe/

Noun

dȕpe n (Cyrillic spelling ду̏пе)

1. (vulgar) ass

   Imaš l(ij)epo dupe. ― You have a nice ass.

   Synonym: gùzica

Declension

Declension of dupe

	singular	plural
nominative	dȕpe	dupèta
genitive	dupeta	dupétā
dative	dupetu	dupetima
accusative	dupe	dupeta
vocative	dupe	dupeta
locative	dupetu	dupetima
instrumental	dupetom	dupetima

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West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪u.pe/

Verb

dupe

1. (transitive) to throw away
2. (transitive) to drop (an anchor)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dupe (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		todupe	modupe	adupe
2nd person		nodupe	fodupe
3rd person	inanimate	idupe	dodupe
	animate
imperative		nudupe, dupe	fudupe, dupe

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics