chup

Onomatopoeic.

chup (plural chups)

1. A short, loud, and urgent sound, usually of a bird.
   • 2015 April 16, Richard P. Grant, “Sex and the successful fundraiser”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The blackbirds and robins and and^[sic] tits and finches shout at each other, chups and warbles and chirrups that, loosely translated, mean “Fancy a shag?”, “Get OFF my land” or “I’ve got a great big tonker.”

chup (third-person singular simple present chups, present participle chupping, simple past and past participle chupped)

1. (intransitive, of a bird) To make a short, loud, and urgent sound.

Borrowed from Hindi चुप (cup, “silent, quiet; keep quiet, shut up”).^[1]

chup (comparative more chup, superlative most chup)

1. (informal, India) Silent, quiet.

   to keep chup ― to be quiet; to keep mum

   • 1949 November, “Strike in Calcutta Municipality”, in The Modern Review, volume 86, number 5, Calcutta: The Modern Review Office, Notes, page 341:

     Did the strike-leaders not know this fact? Did the general body of Municipal employees do anything to stop this? Were they not co-operating with the thieves amongst them by keeping chup over it all these years?

chup

1. (informal, India) Used to request silence: be quiet, shut up!

From Hindi चुप (cup).

• IPA^(key): [tʃup]

chup

1. silent, quiet
2. still

chup

1. keep quiet, shush
2. shut up

• trankil

[Canadian syllabic needed]

chup

1. face