dupe
pronunciation
How to pronounce dupe in British English:
UK [dju:p]
How to pronounce dupe in American English:
US [dup]
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- Noun:
- a person who is tricked or swindled
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- Verb:
- fool or hoax
Word Origin
- dupe
- dupe: [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 represents ultimately an alteration of Old French huppe ‘hoopoe’, sometimes explained as being a conflation of de huppe ‘of the hoopoe’. (English hoopoe [17] is an alteration of an earlier hoop, which came from Old French huppe; its ultimate source was Latin upupa, which originated as an imitation of the bird’s cry.)=> hoopoe
- dupe (n.)
- 1680s, from French dupe "deceived person," from Middle French duppe (early 15c.), thieves' jargon, perhaps from phrase de huppe "of the hoopoe," an extravagantly crested and reputedly stupid bird.
- dupe (v.)
- 1704, from dupe (n.). Related: Duped; duping.
Example
- 1. Yet , criminals looking to sell gold-plated tungsten as pure gold would only be able to dupe naive buyers .
- 2. Western union is still around too , though its primary customers appear to be internet scam artists hoping to dupe suckers into wiring them money .
- 3. But although google 's system was an improvement , it too was open to abuse from " link spam " , created only to dupe the system .
- 4. Anyway , the bad guys are turning more and more to phishing , where they dupe users into spilling their personal information on the pretext of " restoring " their " suspended " online bank accounts .
- 5. There are some electronic fingerprints suggesting the same group was behind a recent effort to dupe government officials and others into downloading spyware via emails purporting to be from the national security agency and the u. s.military , netwitness 's mr. yoran said .