jaup

or jawp

[ jawp, jahp ]

noun

, Scot. and North England.

1. a splash, spurt, or drop of water.
2. a spot or stain, as from a splash of water or mud.

Word History and Origins

Origin of jaup¹

First recorded in 1505–15; perhaps akin to jaw ²

Example Sentences

Dr. Jaup presided, and speeches were made by delegates from every nation.

From Project Gutenberg

Before the door of Saunders Jaup, a feuar of some importance, “who held his land free, and caredna a bodle for any one,” yawned that odoriferous gulf, ycleped, in Scottish phrase, the jawhole; in other words, an uncovered common sewer.

From Project Gutenberg

Why, because the old pig-headed fool, Saunders Jaup, will not allow it to be made smooth.

From Project Gutenberg

He assisted the old gentleman into the kitchen, where a lamp, as well as a bright fire, was burning, by the light of which he could easily discern that the supposed blood was only water of the rivulet, and, indeed, none of the cleanest, although much more so than the sufferer would have found it a little lower, where the stream is joined by the superfluities of Saunders Jaup's palladium.

From Project Gutenberg

The local situation of this receptacle of filth was well known to Mr. Touchwood; for Saunders Jaup was at the very head of those who held out for the practices of their fathers, and still maintained those ancient and unsavoury customs which our traveller had in so many instances succeeded in abating.

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