dupe

  • 41dupe — [[t]dup, dyup[/t]] n. v. duped, dup•ing 1) a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull 2) a person who unquestioningly or unwittingly serves a cause or another person 3) to make a dupe of; deceive; delude; trick • Etymology: 1675–85; < F;… …

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  • 42dupe — /djup / (say dyoohp) noun 1. a person who is imposed upon or deceived; a gull. –verb (t) (duped, duping) 2. to make a dupe of; deceive; delude; trick. {French, from Old French: duppe, contraction of de huppe of a hoopoe, the bird being… …

  • 43dupe — [17] English borrowed dupe from French, where it was probably originally a humorous application of a dialect word for a ‘hoopoe’, an extravagantly crested bird whose flamboyant appearance seems to have made it the butt of jokes. It presumably… …

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  • 44dupe — n. & v. n. a victim of deception. v.tr. make a fool of; cheat; gull. Derivatives: dupable adj. duper n. dupery n. Etymology: F f. dial. F dupe hoopoe, from the bird s supposedly stupid appearance …

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  • 46Dupe od mramora — Infobox Film name = Dupe od mramora caption = director = Želimir Žilnik producer = Želimir Žilnik writer = Želimir Žilnik starring = Vjeran Miladinović Nenad Racković Milja Milenkovć music = Dejan Kijevčanin cinematography = Gordana Veselinović… …

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  • 47dupe — 1. verb a) To swindle, deceive, or trick. b) To duplicate a photographic image. 2. noun a) A person who has been deceived …

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  • 48Dupe — Копия; Дубликат …

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  • 49dupe — Synonyms and related words: Charlie McCarthy, Federal, Photostat, Xerox, agent, amanuensis, ancilla, apple polisher, appliance, ass licker, babe, backscratcher, backslapper, baffle, baggage agent, bamboozle, befool, beguile, betray, bilk, bluff,… …

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  • 50dupe — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gull, victim, cully, cat spaw; fool; puppet, tool; butt, laughingstock, April fool; sucker, chump (both inf.); easy mark, soft touch, pushover, pigeon (all sl.). v. t. cheat, defraud, swindle;… …

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