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Rhymes with -ʌp

Borrowed from Hindi गप (gap, “gossip; idle talk”).

India, colloquial, countable, uncountable Gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather. Should this lull continue much longer, the consequence will be, that the security of some mercantile houses, for some time on the wave, will fail; and, if we credit the gups in the bazar, the crisis is rapidly approaching.

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Borrowed from Dzongkha རྒེད་པོ (rged po, “gup”).

An elected head of a gewog in Bhutan. 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 th