gup-shup

See also: gup shup

English

Alternative forms

gup shup

Etymology

From Hindi गप-शप (gap-śap, “gossip”).

Noun

gup-shup (usually uncountable, plural gup-shups)

(India, colloquial) Gossip or rumor; idle talk.
- 1997, Ardashir Vakil, Beach Boy, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, 170:
  It's not like the old days when Bharat and Sanjay and Madhu and Ding-Dong Surdi and Honky Shah would come every morning and we would all go through the day's gup shup.
- 2009, Khushwant Singh, Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, 147:
  It takes an afternoon or two for the locals to know you are back so that they can drop in for some gup-shup.
- 2014, Lakshmi C Radhakrishnan, Does Love Really Bite???, Partridge India, →ISBN (hardcover), →ISBN (softcover), chapter 1, 4–5:
  When not in classes the Bookers Park was my den. As the name, it was a park within the campus for those who preferred to read peacefully without being monitored as in the library. Note sharing, discussions and even occasional gup-shups took place here.

单词	gup-shup
释义	gup-shup See also: gup shup English Alternative forms gup shup Etymology From Hindi गप-शप (gap-śap, “gossip”). Noun gup-shup (usually uncountable, plural gup-shups) (India, colloquial) Gossip or rumor; idle talk. 1997, Ardashir Vakil, Beach Boy, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, 170: It's not like the old days when Bharat and Sanjay and Madhu and Ding-Dong Surdi and Honky Shah would come every morning and we would all go through the day's gup shup. 2009, Khushwant Singh, Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, 147: It takes an afternoon or two for the locals to know you are back so that they can drop in for some gup-shup. 2014, Lakshmi C Radhakrishnan, Does Love Really Bite???, Partridge India, →ISBN (hardcover), →ISBN (softcover), chapter 1, 4–5: When not in classes the Bookers Park was my den. As the name, it was a park within the campus for those who preferred to read peacefully without being monitored as in the library. Note sharing, discussions and even occasional gup-shups took place here. See also gup
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