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单词 cup
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cupn.

Brit. /kʌp/, U.S. /kəp/
Forms: α. Old English–1600s cuppe, (Middle English kuppe), Middle English–1600s cupp, 1500s– cup, (1500s Scottish culp(p). β. Middle English cupe, Middle English–1500s coupe, Middle English cowpe, 1500s Scottish coup, cowp. γ. Middle English coppe, Middle English cope, (Middle English coop, 1500s coope).
Etymology: Old English cuppe weak feminine, supposed to be < late Latin cuppa, the source of Italian coppa (close o), Provençal copa, Spanish copa, Portuguese copa, Old French cope, cupe, coupe, rarely coppe, modern French coupe drinking-vessel, cup. Latin cuppa is generally held to be a differentiated form of cūpa , tub, cask, vat, which survives in French cuve , Provençal cuba , Spanish cuba , Portuguese cuba tub, etc. But beside cuppe in Middle English, are found two forms coupe (cowpe ) and coppe , with the variants cupe , cope , coope . Of these coupe (cowpe ) directly represents Old French coupe ; cupe probably represents the earlier Old French spelling of the same word, but may be merely a variant of cuppe . The status of coppe is not so clear: it may also represent Old French cope (sometimes coppe ), or it may be due to mixture of cuppe and Old English copp : see cop n.1; in the form coppes it is impossible to distinguish between the plural of copp and that of coppe. The rare forms cope, coope, probably represent Old French cope. Nearly all these by-forms of the word became obsolete before 1500; only cuppe survives in modern English cup.
I. A drinking-vessel, or something resembling it.
1. A small open vessel for liquids, usually of hemispherical or hemi-spheroidal shape, with or without a handle; a drinking-vessel. The common form of cup (e.g. a teacup or coffee-cup) has no stem; but the larger and more ornamental forms (e.g. a wine-cup or chalice) may have a stem and foot, as also a lid or cover; in such case cup is sometimes applied specifically to the concave part that receives the liquid.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun]
chalicec825
napeOE
copc950
fullOE
cupc1000
canOE
shalec1075
scalec1230
maselin?a1300
mazer1311
richardine1352
dish1381
fiole1382
pece1383
phialc1384
gobletc1400
bowl-cup1420
chalice-cup1420
crusec1420
mazer-cup1434
goddard1439
stoup1452
bicker1459
cowl1476
tankard1485
stop1489
hanapa1513
skull1513
Maudlin cup1544
Magdalene cup?a1549
mazer bowl1562
skew1567
shell1577
godet1580
mazard1584
bousing-can1590
cushion1594
glove1609
rumkin1636
Maudlin pot1638
Pimlico1654
mazer dish1656
mug1664
tumbler1664
souce1688
streaker1694
ox-eye1703
false-cup1708
tankard-cup1745
poculum1846
phiale1867
tumbler-cup1900
stem-cup1915
sippy cup1986
α. cuppe, cupp, cup. (Sc. culp, culpp, belongs perh. to β.)
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 122/37 Caupus vel obba, cuppe.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 290 Nime þonne ane cuppan, do an lytel wearmes wætres on innan.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7482 Heo þa cuppe [c1300 Otho bolle] bitahte þan kinge.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2318 Gure on haueð is cuppe stolen.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 157 Monkes haf grete kuppes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13402 Þai fild a cupp [Gött. cope; Fairf., Trin. Cambr. cuppe] þan son in hast.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 109 Cuppe, ciphus, patera, cuppa.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 35v I haue putte..wyn in my cuppe.
1542 Inventories (1815) 74 (Jam.) Item, twa culpis gilt..Item, twa culppis with thair coveris gilt.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 43 Massiue gould cups.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 54 Fill the cuppe..ile pledge you a mile too th bottome. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 444 Mean while at Table Eve..thir flowing cups With pleasant liquors crown'd. View more context for this quotation
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 250 Nor the coy maid..Shall kiss the cup to pass it to the rest.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 218 Fill the cup, and fill the can.
1872 E. Peacock Mabel Heron I. viii. 136 He half filled a leather cup he carried in his pocket.
β. cupe, coupe, cowpe.c1275 Laȝamon Brut 24612 Mid gildene coupe [earlier t. bolle].1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 23 Coupes of clene gold and coppes of seluer.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4858 A siluer cupe [Fairf. coupe].a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7728 A cupe [Fairf. cuppe; Gött., Trin. Cambr. coupe] he tok and a sper. [Cf. OF. Rois 104 pristrent la lance e la cupe ki fud al chief Saül.]c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1458 Couered cowpes foul clene, as casteles arayed.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 99 Cowpe, or pece, crater (cuppa, P.).a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iv. 67 The kynge hadde a riche cowpe of goolde.γ. coppe ( cope, coop): cf. [see cop n.1]. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 41/258 A coppe of seluer.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 30 And brekþ potes and coppes.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13402 Þai fild a cope [Vesp. cupp, Fairf. cuppe] sone in hast.c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 234 With outen coppe [4 MSS. cuppe] he drank al his penance.a1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626/9 Ciphus, coop.1483 Cath. Angl. 75 A Coppe, ciphus [= scyphus], condus.c1500 Young Children's Bk. (Ashm. 61) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 23 Wype thi mouthe when þou wyll drinke, Lest it foule thi copys brinke.
2. spec.
a. The chalice n. in which the wine is administered at the Communion. (See also sense 8b.)
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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > cup > [noun]
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vessel1340
cupc1449
communion cup1550
ciboire1640
ciboriuma1684
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxvi. 27 And he takynge the cuppe, dede thankyngis, and ȝaue to hem.]
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 203 The eukarist..is born in a coupe ordeyned therto.
1548 Order of Communion sig. C.ii The firste Cuppe or Chalice.
1662 Bk. Com. Prayer Communion, Here he is to take the cup into his hand.
1890 J. Hunter Devotional Services, Communion Then shall the Minister say..when he delivereth the cup: Drink this in remembrance of Christ.
b. An ornamental cup or other vessel offered as a prize for a race or athletic contest.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > awards and prizes
garland?a1513
plate1639
cupc1640
dog plate1686
gold medal1694
gold cup1718
sweepstake1773
trophy1822
bronze medal1852
shield1868
statuette1875
pot1885
team honours1895
letter1897
silver medal1908
school colour1913
gold1945
bronze1960
silver1960
Fed Cup1965
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > token of victory or supreme excellence > [noun] > prize > other specific prize
glaivec1380
cupc1640
pewter1814
banner1840
presentation cup1844
blue ribbon1860
ribbon1860
shield1868
special1872
wager-cup1878
presentation bowl1896
rose bowl1970
quaich1971
c1640 Capt. Underwit iii. iii, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 368 Does the race hold at Newmarket for the Cup?
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. iii. 40 All the family race cups, and corporation bowls.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxviii. 424 Think you're vinnin a cup, Sir.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Apr. 4/2 The competition for the Challenge Cup.
3. Surgery (a) A vessel used for cupping; a cupping-glass; (b) a vessel holding a definite quantity (usually four ounces), used to receive the blood in blood-letting.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > cupping-glassor -horn
box?a1425
bleeding-boistc1440
ventose1500
cucurbit?1541
cucurbitule?1541
cupping-glass1545
boxing glass1562
ventosa1562
wind-glass1585
cupping box1592
boxing cup1605
cup-glass1616
cup1617
bleeding-bowl1911
1617 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick 27 To remoue headach the cups are fixed on the legs.
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins xii. 288 He [sc. Hippocrates] tells you that in applying of Cups the Scarification ought to be made with crooked Instruments.
1792 H. Munro Compend. Syst. Mod. Surg. 23 As soon as the wound is made by these [lancets], a cup, exhausted of its atmospheric air, applied over the orifices, makes them bleed freely.
1889 Chambers's Encycl. III. 618 Of old the cups were either small horns..or glasses of various shapes.
4. A natural organ or formation having the form of a drinking-cup; e.g. the rounded cavity or socket of certain bones, as the shoulder blade and hip bone; the cup-shaped hardened involucrum (cupule) of an acorn ( acorn-cup); the calyx of a flower, also the blossom itself when cup-shaped; a cup-shaped organ in certain Fungi, or on the suckers of certain Molluscs; a depression in the skin forming a rudimentary eye in certain lower animals (also eye-cup or cup-eye).
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity > urn- or cup-shaped cavity
cup1540
calix1708
calyx1828
calicle1848
eye cup1876
urn1877
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > rudimentary eye > depression forming
cup1900
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxxviv Take..the cuppes of Acornes.
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. G.iiiv The..shoulder blade..in the vpper part it is round, in whose roundnes is a concauitie, which is calledye [sic] boxe or coope of the shoulder.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 31 All their Elues..Creepe into acorne cups, and hide them there. View more context for this quotation
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 849 The Cup of the Hippe.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 45 The Cup is that which infolds the Leaves and the Heart of a Flower, while it is yet in Bud.
1743–6 W. Shenstone Elegies viii. 38 The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 870 Peziza..The hymenium lines the cavity of a fleshy membranous or waxy cup.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 456 The suckers of the Decapoda are stalked, and the cup has a marginal horny ring.
1900 F. A. Bather in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. III. 30 Each cup is coated at its base with pigment.
1927 Glasgow Herald 9 July 4 In some of the sea-worms..we start with diagrammatically simple ‘cup-eyes’,..and gradually pass to very elaborate ‘cup-eyes’.
1927 Glasgow Herald 9 July 4 A minute optic skin~cup.
1929 Encycl. Brit. XX. 628/2 Eye-spots are found in Medusae, starfishes, and some Annelid worms... The first step..is the sinking of the eye-spot into a pit-like depression, thus forming an eye-cup (optic cup).
1929 Encycl. Brit. XX. 628/2 The cells situated at the back of the cup.
1940 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 6) I. 249 [Phylum Platyhelminthes.] When most highly developed the eye..is still of very simple structure, consisting of a cup formed of one or more pigment-cells having sensory cells in close relation to it with processes (nerve-fibres) passing to the brain.
5. A rounded cavity, small hollow, or depression in the surface of the ground or of a rock. spec. in Golf: see quot. 18871. Cf. cup-and-ring n. at Compounds 4.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun]
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piteOE
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hollowc897
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seathc950
delfOE
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ditchc1275
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scoop1780
cup1819
1819 W. Faux Memorable Days Amer. (1823) 284 He would have bought [land] from Mr. Birkbeck, but could get only a ‘cup’, that is, a swamp.
1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice i. 7 The church..stood in a cup of the hillside.
1886 Outing (U.S.) Nov. 107/1 He [sc. the grizzly] had passed the end of the butte, and descended into a shallow cup in the plain.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Cup, a term in golfing applied to a small cavity or hole in the course, prob. made by the stroke of a previous player.
1887 W. G. Simpson Art of Golf 133 Beware of a cup, however small.
1889 Chambers's Encycl. III. 618 Cup-markings on rocks..of two varieties—circular cavities or ‘cups’ pure and simple, and cups surrounded by circles.
6.
a. technical. Applied to various cup-shaped contrivances; see quots.
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1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 113 Cup, A solid piece of cast iron let into the step of the capstan, and in which the iron spindle at the heel of the capstan works.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Cup. 4. One of a series of little domes attached to a boiler-plate and serving to extend the fire-surface.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 99 There are two varieties of cups—‘saucer’ and ‘balance-wheel’—the former, shaped like a saucer, is generally of gold, and is used in three-quarter plate watches.
b. Painting.
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1768 W. Gilpin Ess. Prints 223 The heavier part of the foliage (the cup, as the landskip-painter calls it) is always near the middle: the out-side branches.. are light and airy.
c. That part of a brassière which is shaped to contain or support one of the breasts. Also attributive and in other combinations.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > brassière > part of
cup1938
gay deceiver1942
falsies1943
undercup1945
underwire1973
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [adjective] > brassière > part of
cup1938
1938 ‘E. Queen’ Four of Hearts (1939) ix. 129 She didn't have to wear a cup-form brassière.
1957 Housewife Sept. 104 Thinnest foam rubber curved in the cups..achieves a natural line by gently contouring the bosom itself.
1959 Housewife June 28 Marquisette cup section underlined lace.
1959 Housewife June 28 A perfect contour bustline..B and C cups.
1959 News Chron. 13 July 6/3 Cup fittings are based on the difference between underbust and full bust measurements.
1970 Times 16 June 7/6 The prettiest and the most alluring and flattering bathing suits are halter-necked with a vertiginous..plunge in the front and very soft, unsupported cups.
7. Astronomy. The constellation crater n.
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Crater
water-pot1546
cup1556
crater1658
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 269 The Cuppe standeth on the Hydres backe.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 19 The Sonne..Making his way betweene the Cuppe, and golden Diademe.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 326.
II. Transferred and figurative uses.
8.
a. A cup with the liquor it contains; the drink taken in a cup; a cupful. loving cup n., a cup of wine, etc. passed from hand to hand round a company. Also elliptical. (In quots. 1952, 1969, elliptical in sense Phrases 2 (ii).)
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. x. 42 Who euer ȝiueth drynke to oon of these leste a cuppe of cold water oonly.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 171 b Quhasaeuer sal giv ony of thais small ains ane coup of watter to drink onelie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. iii. 78 O knight, thou lack'st a cup of Canarie. View more context for this quotation
1660 S. Pepys Diary 25 Sept. (1970) I. 253 I..did send for a Cupp of Tee (a China drink) of which I never had drank before.
c1760 Mother Goose's Melody (1785) 19 Take a cup and drink it up, Then call your Neighbours in.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 39 The cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each. [See cheer v. 5c.]
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. xlviii. 145 A cup of poison had been prepared for him.
1847 C. M. Yonge in Mag. for the Young Sept. 189 There is the kettle..all ready for tea!..Won't you sit down and have a cup, Amy?
1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 44 Each of these gentlemen drank four cups of tea.
1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. iii. 51 Anyway, none of it would be your cup, darling.
1969 J. Elliot Duel i. iii. 68 He enjoys his little Royal Society dinners... Not my cup.
b. spec. The wine taken at the Communion. (Cf. 2a.)
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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > wine > [noun]
winec1005
bloodOE
blood of Christc1384
singing wine1558
cup1597
sacrament-wine1698
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xi. 26 How ofte euere ȝe schulen ete this breed, and schulen drynke the cuppe.]
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxvii. 176 The breade and Cup are his body and bloud.
1681–6 J. Scott Christian Life (1747) III. 307 To communicate with them..in this one Baptism, and one eucharistical Bread and Cup.
1884 J. Candlish Sacraments 91 The wine is described merely as ‘the cup’, ‘the fruit of the vine’.
c. transferred. Drink; that which one drinks.
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1719 E. Young Busiris v. 56 Weeds are their Food, their Cup the muddy Nile.
9. figurative. Chiefly in the sense (derived from various passages of Scripture): Something to be partaken of, endured or enjoyed; an experience, portion, lot (painful or pleasurable, more commonly the former). Cf. chalice n. 1b.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun]
sorrowOE
ail?c1225
scorpion?c1225
dolec1290
angera1325
anguishc1330
cupa1340
aggrievancea1400
discomfortc1405
afflictionc1429
sytec1440
pressurea1500
constraint1509
tenterhook1532
grief1535
annoying1566
troubler1567
griper1573
vexation1588
infliction1590
trouble1591
temptationc1595
load1600
torment1600
wringer1602
sorance1609
inflicting1611
brusha1616
freighta1631
woe-heart1637
ordeala1658
cut-up1782
unpleasure1792
iron maiden1870
mental cruelty1899
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > circumstance or occurrence > a burdensome lot or fate
burdenc971
cupa1340
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter x. 7 He calles þaire pynes a cope, for ilk dampned man sall drynk of þe sorow of hell.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xv. 5 He is cope of all my delite & ioy.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. AAAiv To drynke the cuppe of sorowe.
1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Matt. xx. 22 Are ye able to drynke of the cuppe that I shall drynke of?
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 299 Al foes [shall taste] the cup of their deseruings. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xvi. 5, xxiii. 5, etc.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 266 In Folly's Cup still laughs the Bubble, Joy.
1833 E. B. Barrett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound in Prometheus & Misc. Poems 24 I quaff this cup of a present fate.
1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God ii. 40 Filling to the brim the cup of his iniquity.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xviii. 293 To drink the bitterest cup of humiliation.
10. plural. The drinking of intoxicating liquor; potations, drunken revelry. in one's cups: †(a) while drinking, during a drinking-bout (also †amidst, among, at, over one's cups); (b) in a state of intoxication, ‘in liquor’.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
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Bacchanal1536
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Bacchanalia1633
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carousal1765
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drink1865
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pub crawl1915
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periodic1920
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session1943
piss-up1950
pink-eye1958
binge drinking1964
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
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cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
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well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
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lushy1811
pissed1812
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malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
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ripe1823
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queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
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rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
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pickled1842
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obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
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boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
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elephant trunk1859
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shot1864
ebriose1871
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parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
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piped1906
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jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
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zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 165 For in the cuppe seelden fownden is, Þat any wight his neigheburgh commendith.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Aiii Amonge theire cuppes they geue iudge ment of the wittes of wryters.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Esdras iii. 22 And when they are in their cups, they forget their loue both to friends and brethren. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 718 Thence from Cups to civil Broiles. View more context for this quotation
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses ii. iv. 16 She us'd to come home in her Cups, and break the China.
1828 J. Bentham Let. to Sir F. Burdett in Wks. (1843) X. 592 I hear you are got among the Tories, and that you said once you were one of them: you must have been in your cups.
1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (ed. 2) V. ii. 22 They..discuss points of doctrine..even..over their cups.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 33 The jolly Prince..loving his cups and his ease.
11. A name for various beverages consisting of wine sweetened and flavoured with various ingredients and usually iced; as claret-cup, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > drinks made with wine > [noun] > iced wine drinks
cup1773
cobbler1819
sherry-cobbler1842
claret-cup1875
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 24 Here's a cup, Sir... I have prepared it with my own hands, and I believe you'll own the ingredients are tolerable.
1818 R. Rush Court of London (1833) 151 Sir Henry recommended me to a glass of what I supposed wine..but he called it King's cup.
1833 New Monthly Mag. 37 193 A foaming tankard of cup. Note. Cup is a mixture of beer, wine, lemon, sugar, and spice.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Feb. 5/1 Who..could produce bottles of ‘old Johannisberg’ for a guest and make them into cup.

Phrases

P1. (See also sense 10) between (or betwixt) the cup and the lip: while a thing is yet in hand and on the very point of being achieved. (Now usually there's many a slip between cup and lip, etc.) †such cup, such cover, also †such a cup, such a cruse: implying similarity between two persons related in some way. †cup and can: constant or familiar associates (the can being the large vessel from which the cup is filled). a cup too low: see quots.
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1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. B.viijv Many thynges fall betwene the cuppe and the mouth.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iii. sig. Giiv Mery we were as cup and can coulde holde.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Qiij Suche a cuppe, suche a cruse. She would not depart from hyr own.
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 132 As for your doctours..they are lyke your selfe, as the adage goeth, suche cuppe suche cover.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew A Cup too low, when any of the Company are mute or pensive.
1730 J. Swift Libel on Doctor D——ny 2 You and he are Cup and Cann.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough i. ii If the devil don't step between the cup and the lip.
1801 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1802) 5 305 He must..be cup and can with sextons and grave-diggers.
1864 W. H. Ainsworth John Law I. Prol. x. 118 You're a cup too low. A glass of claret will make you feel more cheerful.
1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember I. xii. 256 A whole series of slips between the cup and the lip!
P2. cup of tea (colloquial phrase):
a. used of a person.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > [noun]
hadc900
lifesmaneOE
maneOE
world-maneOE
ghostOE
wyeOE
lifeOE
son of manOE
wightc1175
soulc1180
earthmanc1225
foodc1225
person?c1225
creaturec1300
bodyc1325
beera1382
poppetc1390
flippera1400
wat1399
corsec1400
mortal?a1425
deadly?c1450
hec1450
personagec1485
wretcha1500
human1509
mundane1509
member1525
worma1556
homo1561
piece of flesh1567
sconce1567
squirrel?1567
fellow creature1572
Adamite1581
bloat herringa1586
earthling1593
mother's child1594
stuff1598
a piece of flesh1600
wagtail1607
bosom1608
fragment1609
boots1623
tick1631
worthy1649
earthlies1651
snap1653
pippin1665
being1666
personal1678
personality1678
sooterkin1680
party1686
worldling1687
human being1694
water-wagtail1694
noddle1705
human subject1712
piece of work1713
somebody1724
terrestrial1726
anybody1733
individual1742
character1773
cuss1775
jig1781
thingy1787
bod1788
curse1790
his nabs1790
article1796
Earthite1814
critter1815
potato1815
personeityc1816
nibs1821
somebody1826
tellurian1828
case1832
tangata1840
prawn1845
nigger1848
nut1856
Snooks1860
mug1865
outfit1867
to deliver the goods1870
hairpin1879
baby1880
possum1894
hot tamale1895
babe1900
jobbie1902
virile1903
cup of tea1908
skin1914
pisser1918
number1919
job1927
apple1928
mush1936
face1944
jong1956
naked ape1965
oke1970
punter1975
1908 W. De Morgan Somehow Good xvi. 159 ‘It's simply impossible to help liking him.’ To which Sally replied, borrowing an expression from Ann the housemaid, that Fenwick was a cup of tea. It was metaphorical and descriptive of invigoration.
a1909 in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era (1909) 101/1 Oh, don't yer though. You are a nice strong cup o' tea.
1939 N. Marsh Overture to Death xi. 120 Miss Prentice..seems to be a very unpleasant cup of tea.
1939 N. Marsh Overture to Death xxiv. 279 She was a cranky old cup of tea.
1940 A. Christie One, Two, buckle my Shoe 123 Sounds quite like that old cup of tea who came to see Mrs. Chapman.
b. one's cup of tea: what interests or suits one.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > choosing as more desirable > a preference > one's special preference
taste1739
particular1801
one's cup of tea1932
in the groove1958
1932 N. Mitford Christmas Pudding xiv. 211 I'm not at all sure I wouldn't rather marry Aunt Loudie. She's even more my cup of tea in many ways.
1933 P. Fleming Brazilian Adventure I. iii. 31 The desire to benefit the community is never their principal motive...They do it because they want to. It suits them; it is their cup of tea.
1936 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Ascent of F6 ii. iii. 96 I had an aunt who loved a plant—But you're my cup of tea!
1937 N. Coward Present Indicative iii. v. 121 Broadway by night seemed to be my cup of tea entirely.
1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair v. 54 Probably she isn't your cup of tea...You have always preferred them a little stupid, and blond.
1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate v. 141 Freddy had stood in the doorway of the dark Orthodox chapel and, regarding the heavy-laden altar and the exotic clusters of coloured lamps hung round it, said, ‘It's not really my cup of tea, you know.’
c. a different cup of tea (and similar expressions): something of an altogether different kind.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > a different matter or state of affairs
a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530
a different (also another) story1688
something else1844
another pair of shoes1861
a different or another kettle of fish1937
a different cup of tea1940
1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie xiii. 215 A Fred racked with ideals, and in the grip of Federal Union, was quite a different cup of tea from the old, happy-go-lucky Fred.
1946 ‘S. Russell’ To Bed with Grand Music i. 20 London in wartime..is a very different cup of tea from Winchester.
1957 Listener 5 Dec. 954/1 The outwitted villain..is quite another cup of tea.

Compounds

General attributive.
C1. General combinations.
a.
cup-augury n.
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1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xix. 351 To presage his fate by a sort of cup-augury involved in examining the grounds of coffee.
cup-maker n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of domestic utensils > [noun] > maker of dishes, bowls, or cups
disher1304
cup-maker14..
boller1415
trencher-maker1588
bickermaker1813
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 686/22 Hic cipharius, a cop-maker.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Cubero A cup maker.
cup-marking n.
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1889 Chambers's Encycl. III. 618 Cup-marking on rocks and cup-marked stones belong to a peculiar class of archaic sculpturings.
b.
cup-eyed adj.
ΚΠ
1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier 33 Cup-eyed care and doubt.
cup-headed adj.
cup-like adj.
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1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 114/2 The bodies of the vertebrae terminate in two cup-like cavities.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 1 A hazelwood..in a cuplike hollow of the down.
cup-marked adj.
cup-shaped adj.
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1845 Athenæum 22 Feb. 199 Cup-shaped bodies.
C2. esp. in reference to social drinking or drunkenness (cf. sense 10): as cup-acquaintance, cup-caper, cup-conqueror, cup-friendship, cup-god, cup-mate, cup-tossing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > companion
pot-companion1549
potpanionc1580
cup-mate?1592
pot-mate1603
pot-allya1625
compotator1731
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. H3v Where is tipsie Alexander, that great cup conqueror?
1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. i. 13 Til that same Cup-challenging profession came into our land.
1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. iii. 119 Wine..swilled by challenging Cupmates.
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 83 Cup-friendship, is of too brittle and glassie a substance to continue long.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. v. 203 Only his Cup Acquaintance. View more context for this quotation
1842 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland II. 270 She was perfect mistress of the art of cup-tossing.
C3.
a. In sense 2b, as cup final, cup-holder, cup-taker, cup-transaction, cup-winner, etc.
ΚΠ
1879 W. Black White Wings xvii The master of one of the Cup takers [a yacht].
1894 Daily News 26 Feb. 5/1 Those mighty cup-fighters, the Blackburn Rovers.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 7/3 A typical ‘cup-fighting’ team.
1905 Daily Chron. 25 Dec. 3/4 Old Internationals and Cup-final players.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 14 Mar. 14/2 The cup-holders were defeated in their first match.
1968 Listener 23 May 681/3 There is something wrong with a game when one of its outstanding young exponents, the new Cup-winners' goalkeeper with Under-23 honours, says about it a few weeks before the Cup Final: ‘The worst time of the week for me is between three o'clock and twenty to five every Saturday afternoon.’
b.
cup-day n. a day on which a race is run for a cup.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > race-day or week > specific
cup-day1860
1860 E. C. Gaskell Let. 27 Aug. (1966) 631 It was Cup Day at Ascot.
1862 London Society Aug. 98 We travelled [to Ascot] on the Cup day..‘The latest prices’ of the Cup horses.
cup horse n. a horse that runs for a cup.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 329/2 The expression ‘a cup-horse’ is understood to imply an animal capable of distinguishing himself over a long distance at even weights against the best opponents.
cup-tie n. a ‘tie’ (i.e. match or contest between the victors in previous contests) played for a cup.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > game or definite spell of play > specific one of series
heata1663
rubber game1793
round1837
rubber match1843
tie-match1864
final1880
postseason1882
semi-final1884
preliminary1886
cup-tie1895
play-off1895
tie1895
leg1899
repechage1899
qualifier1908
quarter-final1916
playdown1918
rounder1918
go-around1933
quick death1938
semi1942
pretrial1946
quarter1950
barrage1955
tie-breaker1961
semi-main1968
tie-break1970
breaker1979
1895 Daily News 21 Feb. 5/5 The Wednesday men are noted cup-tie fighters.
1905 Daily Chron. 14 Apr. 8/1 A special brand of play known as ‘the Cup-tie game’.
1908 Pearson's Weekly 5 Mar. Suppl. p. iii/3 We're playing a cup-tie!
1963 Times 10 Jan. 3/4 The..good humoured indulgence afforded Hospital cup-ties.
cup-tied adj. Association Football of a player: ineligible to play in cup-ties for the remainder of a season through having already played for another club in the current season's competition.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [adjective] > of player: ineligible to play in cup-ties
cup-tied1970
1970 Times 20 Nov. 18/2 Wakeling, being cup-tied after playing for Corinthian-Casuals, will be missed in midfield, and Richards will probably replace him.
1976 Eastern Evening News (Norwich) 29 Nov. 14/8 Jimmy Greenhoff, Manchester United's £120,000 buy from Stoke City, is cup-tied and will not be eligible to play against Everton.
C4. Special combinations. See cup and ball n., cup-bearer n., cup-moss n., cup-shot adj.
cup-and-cone n. (a) see quot. 1881; (b) Metallurgy designating a fracture in which one surface of the metal consists of a raised rim enclosing a flat central portion into which the other surface fits.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > qualities of metals > [adjective] > type of imperfection
eager1579
blown1872
cup-and-cone1881
cuppy1925
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 125 Cup-and-cone. A machine for charging a shaft-furnace, consisting of an iron hopper with a large central opening, which is closed by a cone or bell, pulled up into it from below.
1925 A. T. Adam Wire-drawing x. 197 ‘Cuppy’ wire—i.e. wire which breaks either in drawing or in bending with a very distinct ‘cup and cone’ fracture.
1967 A. K. Osborne Encycl. Iron & Steel Industry (ed. 2) 99/2 Cup-and-cone... A type of fracture occurring in tensile test pieces from steels possessing reasonable ductility, and containing no local abnormality where the necking occurs.
cup-and-ring n. designation of a type of marks found cut in megalithic monuments, consisting of a circular depression surrounded by concentric rings.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > marking on
cup-and-ring1867
cup-marking1867
cup-mark1884
1867 J. Y. Simpson Arch. Sculpt. 2 Cup and ring cuttings.
1875 C. Maclagan Hill Forts Index Cup and Ring Sculpturings.
1875 C. Maclagan Hill Forts 41 On one monolith..are some ‘cup and ring markings’.
1900 Daily News 11 Oct. 6/1 A rude dial at West Kirby looks like an example of ‘cup and ring stones’.
1919 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 53 23 The cup- and ring-marked stone which was found near this spot.
1963 S. Piggott in I. L. Foster & L. Alcock Culture & Environment iv. 64 The cup-and-ring carvings of Galicia have again been brought into relationship with those of Ireland.
cup-and-saucer adj. designation of a naturalistic style in the late nineteenth-century theatre, introduced by T. W. Robertson.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > other types
satyric1637
cup-and-saucer1881
slice of life1895
glued-up1906
compressionist1961
am-dram1985
1881 Times 27 Dec. 3/5 It [sc. Albery's Two Roses] has more than the merit, though it has hardly met with the popularity of the ‘cup and saucer’ comedies of the late Mr. T. W. Robertson.
1892 W. Archer in G. B. Shaw Prefaces (1934) 667/2 The scheme of a twaddling cup-and-saucer comedy.
1933 G. B. Shaw in Shaw on Theatre (1958) 222 The stuffiness of the London cup-and-saucer theatre.
cup-and-saucer limpet n. collectors' name of the molluscous genus Calyptræa.
† cup-band n. Obsolete ‘a brace of metal on which masers and handled cups were hung’ (Riley Liber Albus).
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > cup, bowl, or basin > stand for hanging cups
cup-banda1400
a1400 in Liber Albus 609 Cuppebonde.
1483 Cath. Angl. 75 A Copbande, cru[s]ta.
cup-cake n. originally U.S. a cake baked from ingredients measured by the cupful, or baked in a small (frequently paper) cup.
ΘΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes
honey appleeOE
barley-cake1393
seed cakea1400
cake?a1425
pudding-cake?1553
manchet1562
biscuit cake1593
placent1598
poplin1600
jumbal1615
bread pudding1623
semel1643
wine-cakea1661
Shrewsbury cake1670
curd cake1675
fruitcake1687
clap-bread1691
simnel cake1699
orange-flower cake1718
banana cake1726
sweet-cake1726
torte1748
Naples cake1766
Bath cake1769
gofer1769
yeast-cake1795
nutcake1801
tipsy-cake1806
cruller1808
baba1813
lady's finger1818
coconut cake1824
mint cake1825
sices1825
cup-cake1828
batter-cake1830
buckwheat1830
Dundee seed cake1833
fat-cake1839
babka1846
wonder1848
popover1850
cream-cake1855
sly-cake1855
dripping-cake1857
lard-cake1858
puffet1860
quick cake1865
barnbrack1867
matrimony cake1871
brioche1873
Nelson cake1877
cocoa cake1883
sesame cake1883
marinade1888
mystery1889
oblietjie1890
stuffed monkey1892
Greek bread1893
Battenberg1903
Oswego cake1907
nusstorte1911
dump cake1912
Dobos Torte1915
lekach1918
buckle1935
Florentine1936
hash cake1967
space cake1984
1828 E. Leslie Seventy-five Receipts 61 Cup Cake.
1886 Harper's Mag. Dec. 134/2 Cousin Carry with her eternal cup-cake.
1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 271 Mis' Steele made some cup-cake to-day... She put a cup of butter and two whole cups of sugar in it.
1907 Mrs. Beeton's All about Cookery (new ed.) 216/2 Cup Cakes, Plain (American Recipe)..3 level cupfuls of flour, 1 cupful of sugar, ½ a cupful of butter, 1 cupful of milk... Bake in shallow tins or small cups.
1911 E. Ferber Dawn O'Hara viii. 109 There were little round cup cakes made of almond paste that melts in the mouth.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top viii. 82 The cakes were fresh..meringues, éclairs, chocolate cup-cakes.
cup-coral n. (see coral n.1 1b).
cup-custard n. fluid custard served in glass cups.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > egg dishes > [noun] > custard
flawnc1300
charlet?c1390
dariole?a1400
dowset1425
flathonc1430
papina1450
flathec1450
fool1598
custarda1616
burnt cream1723
custard pudding1727
custard pie1729
flummery1747
floating island1771
custard cream1805
charlotte russea1845
crème caramel1846
cup-custard1853
pudding1896
crème renversée1912
leche flan1927
galaktoboureko1950
natillas1969
panna cotta1984
1853 San Francisco Whig 28 July 1/4 (advt.) Cup Custard.
1862 ‘G. Hamilton’ Country Living 72 We had cup-custards at the close of our breakfast that morning.
1867 A. D. Whitney Leslie Goldthwaite x. 223 Cup-custards, even, disappeared,—cups and all.
cup-defect n. the fault in timber of being cup-shaken adj. at cup-shake n. Derivatives.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > trees
wind-shake1545
file1600
joint-ache1601
wind-shock1664
measles1674
hidebound1678
carcinoma1832
knot1845
cup-defect1875
cup-shake1875
beech disease1905
1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees 32 The cup-defect occurs in perfectly sound and healthy-looking trees.
cup-flower n. a name for Scyphanthus elegans, a South American plant with yellow cup-shaped flowers.
cup-fungus n. any discomycetous fungus having a cup-shaped ascocarp; cf. cup-mushroom n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > cup-mushroom and allies
Peziza1751
cup-mushroom1769
fairies' bath1854
funnel-top1854
fairy cups1855
cup-fungus1910
1910 Encycl. Brit. XI. 341/2 Owing to the shape of the fruit-body many of these forms are known as cup-fungi, the cup or apothecium often attaining a large size.
1960 R. W. G. Dennis (title) British cup fungi and their allies.
1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 150 The Pezizales or Cup Fungi have a spore-producing layer which develops within a more-or-less shallow cup.
cup-gall n. a cup-shaped gall or excrescence found on oak-leaves.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Cup-galls..a kind of galls found on the leaves of the oak, and some other trees.
1845 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 32 The cup shaped galls, so common in Oak leaves.]
† cup-glass n. Obsolete = cupping-glass n. (in Bullokar, 1616).
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1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Cupglasse, a hollow round Glasse, with a hole in the bottome, vsed by Physitians sometimes, to drawe blood or wind out of the body.
cup-grease n. a kind of semi-solid lubricant.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > for lubricating
liquor1559
greasing1598
axle-grease1878
cup-grease1900
1900 L. Archbutt & R. M. Deeley Lubrication & Lubricants v. 122 ‘Cup’ greases are usually thickened with soap from either horse fat, cottonseed oil, or rape oil, saponified with lime.
1935 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 14 Nov. 66/2 Large quantities of soft cup greases..are still used for chassis lubrication.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 187/1 The groove of the frame should be freed..of earth and rust, and packed with..cup-grease.
cup-guard n. a cup-shaped sword-guard.
cup-head n. a hemispherical head to a bolt.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > bolt > parts of
clench1598
bolt-head1691
snug1843
snap head1869
box-strap1874
cup-head1929
1929 Encycl. Brit. III. 827/2 The cup-head or coach-bolt.
cup-headed adj.
ΚΠ
1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 46 The spikes [to fasten the chair to the sleeper] are cup-headed.
cup-hilted adj. having a cup-guard on the hilt.
cup hook n. a hook which is screwed into a wall, shelf, cupboard, etc., and used for hanging up cups, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that by which something is suspended > hook
hookc900
crookc1290
rackhook1457
tenter1592
tenterhook1888
cup hook1895
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 400/1 Brass Cup Hooks, Size 5/ 8 in. 3/ 4 in. 7/ 8 in. 1 in.
1925 Black. Mag. Jan. 5/1 He put his pipe to rest in a cup-hook screwed at an angle in the window jamb.
1970 R. Jeffries Dead Man's Bluff xix. 180 A weight had been suspended by running string through a cup hook.
cup-leather n. (see quots.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > other parts of pumps
pump box1422
pump-staff1422
pump-tree1617
branch1659
pump rod1731
pear-gauge1753
barometer-gauge1783
bucket-door1797
head1824
balance-bob1838
suction primer1875
cup-leather1889
airline1893
1889 Cent. Dict. Cup-leather, a piece of leather fastened around the plunger or bucket of a pump. For a bucket it is sleeve-shaped, and for a plunger it is made with a solid bottom.
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 143/1 Cup leather, a leather ring, produced by forcing a flat ring of leather into a mould.
1930 Engineering 25 July 95/3 They have rams..and..glands with triple cup leathers.
† cup-leech n. Obsolete one addicted to his cups.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 52 Cheryn was a drunkard, a cupleache.
cup-lichen n. = cup-moss n. a (in Prior, 1879).
cup-man n. a man addicted to cups, a reveller.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. ii. iii. 211 Oh, a friend of mine! a brother cupman, a quiet dog..said Burbo.
cup-mark n. a shallow cup-like depression found cut in rocks or stone monuments (see 5).
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > marking on
cup-and-ring1867
cup-marking1867
cup-mark1884
1884 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 18 110 Edge of Rock with Cup-marks.
1919 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 53 22 The fracture on one side cuts across a cup-mark.
cup-marked adj.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [adjective] > stone > marking on
cup-marked1867
1867 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1870) New Ser. 7 270 A Kist, with a cup-marked Cover.
1875 C. Maclagan Hill Forts 45 The cup-marked stone figured on Plate XI.
1898 Geogr. Jrnl. 11 681 Inscribed and cup-marked stones.
1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 150 At either end of this are standing stones, one of which is cup-marked.
cup-marking n. = cup-mark n.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > marking on
cup-and-ring1867
cup-marking1867
cup-mark1884
1867 J. Y. Simpson Arch. Sculpt. 7 In the centres of the remaining six series of circles there are no cup-markings.
1877 W. Greenwell Brit. Barrows 341 A square piece of the same stone..which has a circular pit or cup-marking on each face.
cup-mouthpiece n. (see quot.).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > parts of > mouthpiece
buccal1605
cup-mouthpiece1911
1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 947/1 Cup-Mouthpieces.—Brass wind instruments are played by means of cup or funnel-shaped mouthpieces, generally made of silver... The shallower the cup the more suitable it is for producing the higher harmonics.
cup-mushroom n. ‘a name for various species of Peziza’ (Britten and Holland).
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > cup-mushroom and allies
Peziza1751
cup-mushroom1769
fairies' bath1854
funnel-top1854
fairy cups1855
cup-fungus1910
1769 J. Wallis Nat. Hist. Northumberland I. viii. 305 Small, sessile, white, proliferous Cup-Mushrome.
cup mute n. a kind of mute for a trumpet or trombone; so cup-muted adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > mute for
sordine1591
sourdet1611
sourdine?1779
mute1841
wah-wah mute1925
straight mute1926
plunger1934
plunger mute1935
cup mute1955
harmon mute1955
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [adjective] > muted or not muted
open1926
cup-muted1955
1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz ii. 64 A variety of mutes, including..cup..mutes.
1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 61 Cup mute, a cone-like mute with an added metal or fibre cup which reduces the volume considerably, producing a fine, pleasing tone.
1967 Crescendo May 8/2 ‘Boss Bambino’ has bossa nova rhythm and cup-muted trombone.
cup-plant n. U.S. Silphium perfoliatum of North America.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > compass-plant or silphium
silphium1771
turpentine weed1819
rosinweed1831
resinweed1838
polar plant1842
compass-flower1847
compass-plant1848
cup-plant1848
pilot weed1848
turpentine shrub-
1848 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. (new ed.) 336 Silphium perfoliatum. Cup-plant.
1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 580 Another species of the same genus, called the cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum)..is common in the moist ravines.
1968 R. T. Peterson & M. McKenny Field Guide Wildflowers Northeastern & North-central N. Amer. 184 Cup-plant, Silphium perfoliatum.
cup-plate n. see quot. 1891.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > saucer
cup-plate1674
saucer1693
1674 London Gaz. No. 863/4 Stoln..Ten Pottage Plates, Three Cup Plates, Two Sawcers.
1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 353/1 Seven saucers, and ten ‘cup-plates’. By cup-plates I mean the little flat saucers in which our grandmothers placed their tea-cups when they poured their tea into the deeper saucers to cool.
† cup-rite n. Obsolete a libation.
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 70 Iuppiter almighty, whom men Maurusian..with cuprit's magnifye dulye.
cup-rose n. Dialect variant of cop-rose n.
cup-sculpture n. = cup-marking n. at Compounds 1a.
cup-seed n. a North American plant, Calycocarpum Lyoni (in Miller, 1884), having seeds hollowed out on one side like a cup.
cup-shrimp n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > miscellaneous types of
butterfly lobster1880
nipper1882
cup-shrimp1911
1911 W. T. Calman Life of Crustacea 245 A smaller species..(Leander squilla), and another very similar species..L. adspersus,..are said to be sold on some parts of the English coast as ‘Cup Shrimps’.
cup-sponge n. a kind of sponge shaped like a cup.
cup-sprung adj. having the hip-joint dislocated.
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1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 414 For a Lameness in a Cow or Bullock, or when they are shoulder-pitched, or cup-sprung.
† cup-stool n. Obsolete
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1567 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 272 One flanders chist one litle cupstole, one [c]hare.
cup-valve n. see quot.
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1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 130/1 Cup-valve, for a steam-engine.
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Cup-valve. (Steam-engine.) a. A cup-shaped or conical valve, which is guided by a stem to and from its flaring seat. b. A form of balance-valve which opens simultaneously on top and sides. c. A valve formed by an inverted cup over the end of a pipe or opening.
† cup-waiter n. Obsolete one who serves liquor at a meal or feast.
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1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xiii. 592/1 The Maior to attend in his owne person as chiefe Cuppe-waiter..to serve the king in a cuppe of gold.

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Cookery (chiefly North American). A measure of capacity equal to the amount it takes to fill a cup; spec. a standard measure of eight American fluid ounces (½ American pint), used for measuring dry or liquid ingredients by volume; = cupful n. Additions 2.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > cup as unit
teacupful1705
cup1857
cupful1896
1857 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer Feb. 63/2 Three eggs, one cup sugar, one of flour, one teaspoon cream tartar, half do. soda.
1884 M. J. Lincoln Boston Cook Bk. (1887) Introd. 30 2 gills = 1 cup, or ½ pint.
1913 E. H. Glover Dame Curtsey's Bk. Candy Making v. 34 Divinity fudge. Three and one-half cups of granulated sugar, one-half cup of 90 per cent corn syrup, [etc.].
1989 A. Willan Reader's Digest Compl. Guide Cookery 502 The standard measures in North America [include]..the eight fluid ounce cup (so called because the water it holds weighs eight ounces).
2003 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 31 May l9/6 1 cup lentils de puy.

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North American. Sport. A covering or shield worn by sportsmen to protect the genitals. Cf. box n.2 11.
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1914 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily News 3 Dec. 9/3 It is hereby agreed upon that both contestants shall wear a cup to protect themselves from fouls.
1931 Chicago Sunday Tribune 15 Feb. a2/2 Each fighter must wear a cup.
1970 J. Bouton Ball Four ii. 35 The cups are metal inserts that fit inside the jock strap, and when a baseball hits one it's called ringing the bell, which rhymes with hell, which is what it hurts like.
2001 Esquire Apr. 103/1 The greatest baseball player who has ever adjusted his cup.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

cupv.

Brit. /kʌp/, U.S. /kəp/
Etymology: < cup n.
1. Surgery (transitive) To apply a cupping-glass to; to bleed by means of a cupping-glass. Also absol.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > let blood of [verb (transitive)] > bleed by cupping
ventosec1400
boistc1440
box?a1450
cup1482
ventilate1668
1482 Monk of Evesham 32 As a mannys flesh is wont to blede whenne hit is cuppid.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 431 Set a cupping-glasse theron, and cup it.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 16 A Beau in a Bagnio, Cupping for a Complexion.
1757 B. Franklin Let. 22 Nov. in Wks. (1887) II. 522 They cupped me on the back of the head.
1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 3 June (1946) 76 Dr. Ross orderd me to be cupd.
†2.
a. To supply with cups, i.e. with liquor; to make drunk, intoxicate. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk
fordrenchc1000
indrunkena1300
mazec1390
distemper1491
whittle1530
swill1548
inebriate1555
disguise1560
intoxicatea1566
tipple1566
overtake1577
betipple1581
seethe1599
fuddlec1600
fox1611
wound1613
cupa1616
fuzzle1621
to gild overa1625
sousea1625
tip1637
tosticate1650
drunkify1664
muddle1668
tipsy1673
sop1682
fuzz1685
confound1705
mellowa1761
prime1788
lush1821
soak1826
touch1833
rosin1877
befuddle1887
slew1888
lush1927
wipe1972
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 114 Cup vs till the world go round. View more context for this quotation
1630 J. Taylor Very Merrie Wherrie-Ferry-Voy. in Wks. 12 Well entertain'd I was, and halfe well Cup'd.
b. intransitive. To indulge in ‘cups’; to drink deep.
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1614 T. Adams Dis. Soule 28 The former is not more thirsty after his cupping, then the latter is hungry after his deuouring.
1647 Maids Petition 3 To which stream of iniquity we may be a convenient stop, to dam up the[i]re overflowing cupping.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 14 No more wilfulness and waste, Cuppings, carousings.
3.
a. transitive. To receive, place, or take as in a cup.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > containing or having within > contain or have within [verb (transitive)] > as in a cup or cradle
cup1838
cradle1872
1838 J. Struthers Poet. Tales 138 The dew-drop cupped in the cowslip.
1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid viii. 85 He reverently in his hollow hands Cups water from the stream.
1940 D. Thomas Portrait of Artist as Young Dog 117 I cupped a match to let them see my face in a dramatic shadow.
b. To lodge or contain as in a cup.
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1889 B. Harte Cressy ii Her chin cupped in the hollow of her hand.
1907 Daily Chron. 17 Oct. 8/5 Dene, cupped by the hills that guarded every outlet.
c. Golf. To lodge (the ball) in a ‘cup’ or depression of the ground. (See cup n. 5) Usually as past participle or participial adjective.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (transitive)] > put ball in specific position
stymie1894
cup1896
1896 W. Park Game of Golf 95 A cupped ball gives room for playing one of the finest strokes in golf.
1905 H. Vardon Compl. Golfer 81 When the ball is really badly cupped.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 May 12/2 The cleek is only for use when the ball lies cupped.
4.
a. intransitive. To form a cup; to be or become cup-shaped.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (intransitive)] > curve concavely
valleya1552
sag1777
cup1830
hollow1862
saucer1925
1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) II. 368 Mr. Woodward suggests..that the umbels not cupping is owing to their small size.
1851 Beck's Florist New Dahlias..petals smooth, and gently cupping to the centre.
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b. Golf. ‘To mark or break (the ground) with the club when striking the ball; also, to strike (the ground) with the club when driving a ball’ (Jamieson Supp.). Cf. cup n. 5.
5. transitive. To make concave or cup-shaped; to form into a cup.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave
hollowc1450
incavate1727
to jaw away1802
dish1805
concave1818
saucer1855
spoon1897
cup1909
1909 G. Stratton-Porter Girl of Limberlost xv. 299 ‘Are you afraid she is going?’ Elnora asked. ‘If you are, cup your other hand over her for shelter.’
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 39/2 Power presses for working sheet-metal articles include those for cutting out the blanks, termed cutting-out or blanking presses, and those for cupping or drawing the flat blank into shape.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 39/2 The cupping of the blank being effected by the downward motion of the plunger.
1954 X. Fielding Hide & Seek 228 The despatcher..cupped his hand to my ear and shouted.

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transitive and intransitive. Originally U.S. To judge the quality of (coffee) by tasting it. Cf. cupping n. Additions.
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1940 Los Angeles Times 7 Jan. ii. 7/1 All incoming coffee is ‘cupped’, usually many times.
1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Dispatch (Nexis) 15 Jan. (Mag. section) 8 The tasting is blind... When he's finished cupping, he picks up each cup to look at the name.
1990 Atlantic May 118/3 I had visions of cupping..with one of the greats.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Sept. (Features section) 10 [They] spend part of many days ‘cupping’ the coffee they purchase.
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