Adjective: chup
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more chup |
| Superlative | most chup |
Sample Sentences
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to keep chup (to be quiet; to keep mum)
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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? [1949 November 26, “Strike in Calcutta Municipality”, in The Modern Review, volume 86, number 5, Calcutta: The Modern Review Office, Notes, page 341:]
Adjectives inflected like chup
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi चुप (cup, “silent, quiet; keep quiet, shut up”).