chupint.adj.
/tʃʊp/, U.S. /tʃʊp/ Indian English colloquial.
A. int.
Be quiet; shut up. Also occasionally reduplicated.
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1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 2 Nov. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. xvi. 413 I heard no needless noise in the camp..; and, if a voice were raised, ‘chup! chup!’ ‘silence! silence!’ followed immediately.
1868 J. Grant First Love & Last Love II. xiii. 137 ‘Chup-chup!’..said Baboo, striking Assim..; ‘begone to the city—there's work for you there.’
1901 R. Kipling Kim ix. 214 Again he heard a chuckle... ‘Chûp—or I break your head.’
1989 R. P. Smith In Forest at Midnight 308 ‘Chup!’ she commanded, her eyes fierce. ‘Be quiet! It is not funny what you have done.’
2016 Open (India) (Nexis) 14 Oct. Chup! You people always interrupt.
B. adj.
Quiet, silent. Frequently in to keep chup: to be quiet; to avoid talking about something secret or controversial, ‘to keep mum’.In earliest use in the British Army in India.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective]
unspeakinga1382
speechless1390
mutec1400
dumb1406
silenta1425
peaceablec1425
secretc1440
of few wordsa1500
tongue-tied1529
mum1532
closec1540
strait-laced1546
tongue-dumb1556
incommunicable1568
sparing1568
inconversable1577
retentive1599
wordless1604
mumbudget1622
uncommunicable1628
monastica1631
word-bound1644
on (also upon) the reserve1655
strait-mouthed1664
oyster-like1665
incommunicative1670
mumchance1681
speechless1726
taciturnous1727
tongue-tacked1727
monosyllabic1735
silentish1737
untalkative1739
silentious1749
buttoned-up1767
taciturn1771
close as wax1772
untittletattling1779
reticent1825
voiceless1827
say-nothing1838
unremonstrant1841
still1855
unvocal1858
inexpansive186.
short-tongued1864
non-communicating1865
tight-lipped1876
unworded1886
chup1896
tongue-bound1906
shut-mouthed1936
zip-lipped1943
shtum1958
1896 J. M. MacDonald Baba Lōg vi. 72 The chaprasis, carrying the guns, were ordered by the Commissioner to keep chup..as no harm was done.
1907 A. Perrin Free Solitude iii. 35 ‘Oh, Ben!’ wailed Myra, ‘you sit, and sit, and are chup, and you will not promise to help me.’
1926 Times of India 15 Oct. 6/7 Philip kept chup about all this, until a certain incident occurred at the wedding feast.
1956 National Assembly of Pakistan: Parl. Deb. 2 159 Mr. Speaker. Mr. Aleem please keep chup... You should not interrupt.
2007 Nation (Pakistan) (Nexis) 14 Feb. India resisted expressing its jubilation; it kept chup and made no response.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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int.adj.1824