Dupe

Definition: Dupe

Dupe

Noun

1. A person who is tricked or swindled.

Verb

1. Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dupe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Dupe

Auxiliary

Tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee; satellite, adherent.

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Dupe

Verb: be deceived; be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; bite, catch a Tartar.

Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw.

Fool

Greenhorn; (dupe); dunce; (ignoramus); lubber; (bungler); madman.

Crosswords: Dupe

Dutch (deceived one, deceived person, victim), French (cat's paw, dupe, fooled), Serbo-Croatian (ass).

Is there a sign on my forehead or is it written in every bathroom from here to Tarn-Vedra about what an easy dupe Beka Valentine is? (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna)

You can't dupe your environment by running away, because in the end it's yourself your running away from. (Just Another Saturday; writing credit: Peter McDougall)

The Dupe (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Colorado Diamond Dupe (Trailsman, No 222) (reference)

• Dupe (reference)

• Dupe Elzbthn Engd (reference)

• Dupe negative (reference)

• La dupe ; Le pénitent exaspéré (reference)

  (more book examples)

High Tech

• Targus Padded Laptop Carrying Case (OCN1) - dupe, refer to B00004Z6N0 (reference)

• WINTV PVR USB MPEG2 FM STEREO - dupe, refer to B00007FGZL (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I am not so stupid as to be the dupe of the Infinite.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "dupe": dupe smb. into. Additional references.

Albanian

dede, viktimë (casualty, prey, sufferer, underdog, victim), leshko (coot, dodo, gander, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy), i humbur (faraway, forfeit, gone, lorn, loser, losing, lost, missing, stray, strayed, waste). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغفل (dense, dolt, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-witted, fool, foolish, licentious, moronic, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, pointless, rubbishy, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, soft-headed, softy, stupid, thick-headed, weak-minded), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, featherbrain, gaby, gander, gawk, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany), ‏الساذج (gaby, goose, gull, lamb, loon, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, pigeon, simpleton, villain, zany). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мамя (cozen, deceive, fiddle, flim-flam, gag, gouge, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, stick, string along, take, twist, victimize), лековерен човек (pigeon, soft, softy), будала (chump, juggins), подхлъзвам (cheat, diddle, do smb., fool, take smb. for a ride, trick), подлъгвам (cheat, entice, fool, humbug, trick). (various references)

Chinese 

欺瞞 (to dupe, to fool, to hoodwink). (various references)

Czech

podvést (cheat, deceive, defraud, double cross, fool, guile, let down, pluck, rope, swindle, take advantage of, victimize), oklamat (befool, cozen, deceive, delude, fool, hoodwink, sham), ošulit (diddle), napálit (bamboozle, beat, cheat, con, fool, hoax, slog, take in), hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, chump, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, fool, gaby, half wit, idiot, ignoramus, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head, tomfool). (various references)

Danish

mellemnegativ (internegative). (various references)

Dutch

tussennegatief (internegative). (various references)

Farsi 

گول زدن (Bamboozle, Beguile, Cajole, Cheat, Con, Deceive, Defraud, Doodle, Entrap, Fool, Gaff, Gouge, Gull, Gum, Gyp, Hoax, Hustle, Jockey, Outwit, Rogue, Swindle, Wheedle), ساده لوح (Credulous, Mug, Nincompoop, Oaf, Sawney, Simpleton, Sot), ادم گول خور. (various references)

Finnish

narrata (cheat, fool, take in), huiputtaa (cheat, diddle, fool), houkka (fool, idiot). (various references)

French

duper, dupe, tromper, internégatif. (various references)

German

übertölpeln (euchre, to dupe, to euchre). (various references)

Greek 

κορόιδο (fool, gull, mug, rook, simp, simpleton, stooge, sucker), κοροϊδεύω (fool, guy, kid, mock, razz, ridicule, spoof, string along, take the mickey out of), ιντερνέγκατιφ (internegative), απατώ (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, bluff, cheat, chisel, circumvent, con, deceive, fool, gouge, gyp, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, rook, sham, shave, shortchange, spoof, swindle, trick). (various references)

Hebrew 

לרמות (bamboozle, cheat, deceit, deceive, fob, fool, hoodwnk, humbug, shortchange, sting, swindle, take for a ride, take in), שוט�" (barmy, brainless, daft, dolt, fool, idiot, imbecile, noodle, oaf, sappy, silly, stupid), פתי (gullible, moron, noodle, simp, simple, simpleton), כסיל (dolt, fool, moron, oaf, simpleton). (various references)

Hungarian

balek (angel, gull, jay, lamb, muff, muggins, pigeon, pushover, sap, softy, sucker). (various references)

Indonesian

orang yang ditipu, menipu (cheat, cozen, deceive, deceptive, defraud, delude, double-cross, hoodwink, outfox). (various references)

Italian

zimbello (butt, byword, decoy, laughing stock), internegativo (internegative), ingannare (abuse, bamboozle, be mistaken, be wrong, beguile, bluff, cheat, cod, deceive, delude, do, fool, Fox, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, impose, kid, lie, mislead, stall, swindle, trick, trickery, victimise, victimize), gonzo (Looby, mug, nincompoop, ninny, noddy, noodle), gabbare (cheat, gull, make fun), credulone (gullible), babbeo (fathead, fool, Looby, muff, muggins, simpleton, sucker), abbindolare (cheat, deceive, defraud, dodge, hocus, rook). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

走狗 (cat's paw, hound, hunting dog, running dog, tool of another person), 出し (broth, excuse, front man, pretense, pretext, stock). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そうく (cat's paw, hound, hunting dog, lean, running dog, tool of another person), � し (broth, excuse, festival car, front man, pretense, pretext, soup stock, stock). (various references)

Manx

molleydagh (disappointing, fallguy, illusive), marranagh (mistaken, person in error), bleb (fool, idiot). (various references)

Norwegian

narre (delude, fool, frame), lure (con, humbug), lettlurt. (various references)

Pig Latin

upeday

Portuguese

pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, silly, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), mangar, lograr (bilk, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cod, cozen, deceive, diddle, fob, fool, fox, gammon, gouge, gyp, inveigle, jockey, let in, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, put it over, spoof, succeed, trick), joguete (creature, plaything, tool), internegativo (internegative), ingénuo (callow, candid, fool, naïve, naive, non-partisan, outage, shirt-sleeve, simple, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, verdant), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, fob, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile). (various references)

Romanian

prosti (bamboozle, besot, chaff, chouse, dull, fool, make a fool of, stultify, stupefy), pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, fool, gammon, get, gull, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trick, trump, twist), naiv (artless, credulous, deceivable, dupable, green, gull, gullible, naïve, naif, puerile, silly, simple minded, simpleton, sincere, verdant), gurã-cascã (booby, gull), gãgãuţã (booby, gander, innocent, ninny, nitwit, noddy, nut, rook, spoony, sucker), şmecheri (swindle), amãgi (cheat, chouse, circumvent, deceive, delude, entice, mistify, seduce, tempt), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references)

Russian 

жертва обмана (cully, fall guy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nasamariti (befool, deceive, fob), nasamaren čovek. (various references)

Spanish

duplicado (duplicate), timar según (gyp, rook), primo (cousin, mug, muggins, prime, sucker), internegativo (internegative), inocentón, incauto (careless, incautious, unguarded, unwarily, unwary), engaño (artfulness, bamboozle, betrayal, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deceiving, deception, delusion, double cross, dupery, falsification, fraud, guile, hoax, imposture, lure, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, phony, sham, swindle, token, trick, trickery), engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, fob, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away), embauque, embaucar (bamboozle, cheat, deceive, defraud, diddle, fool, gull, have on, hoodwink, impose upon, put across, put over, rook, take in, trick). (various references)

Swedish

lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle, trick). (various references)

Thai

หลอกลวง (betray, cheat, euchre, fake out, fiddle, fool, fox, fudge, gull, hoax, humbug, mountebank), คนที่ถูกหลอกลวง. (various references)

Turkish

saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), kukla (doll, Dolly, dummy, figurehead, marionette, poppet, puppet, putty), kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), işletmek (actuate, bamboozle, befool, cod, control, exploit, hoax, hornswoggle, keep, kid, manage, operate, ply, pull smb.'s leg, run, run the show, spoof, work), gırgır geçmek, enayi (chump, fall guy, fool, foolish, goat, gudgeon, gull, mug, muggins, pigeon, schlemiel, schlemihl, schlepper, set up, sucker), aldatılmış kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian

обдурювати (befool, bilk, cheat, chouse, cod, cog, counterfeit, deceive, doodle, flimflam, gull, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, jockey, juggle, prey, put upon, queer, sell short), жертва обману, дублювати (deputize, understudy), дубль-негатив. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người bị bịp. (various references)

fallo, frustro, frustro, frustror, illud, inludant, inludas, inludebant, inludebantque, inludebat, inludebatur, inludendam, inludendum, inludent, inludentes, inludere, inluderet, inludes, inludet, inludetur, inluserunt, inlusisti, inlusus, lacta, lactabant, lactaberis, lactabo, lactans, lactantem, lactantes, lactantibus, lactantis, lactantium, lactaret, lactat, lactatum, lactatus, lactaverint, lactaverunt, lactavit. (various references)

dupe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dupe": duped, duper, duperies, dupers, dupery, dupes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dupe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dape, dapi, dapo, daup, ddp, depe, Depex, depi, Deppa, deppei, deupe, dfp, diepe, dipe, dipi, dipie, dipo, diup, dnp, dopa, dopee, dopi, dopp, doup, dpo, dpp, dsp, dube, Duben, dufe, duge, dule, dume, Dumphey, dupa, dupal, dupar, dupea, dupen, dupey, dupf, dupi, dupm, dupor, dupr, Dupre, dupt, Dupuy, duqe, durp, dute, dutp, duve, duwe, duxe, dvp, tupe, Udfp, udp, udpa, Udpb, Udpn, uep, upe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: due, dup, ped, pud.

-2 letters: de, ed, pe, up.

+1 letter: drupe, duped, duper, dupes, duple, perdu, prude, pseud, puked, puled, spued, umped, upend, upped.

+2 letters: bumped, burped, couped, cupped, cusped, depute, deputy, drupes, dumped, dumper, dupers, dupery, duplex, dupped, gulped, humped, jauped, jumped, louped, lumped, mumped, paused, perdue, perdus, piqued, plumed, poufed, poured, pouted, prudes, pruned, pseudo, pseuds, puddle, puffed, pugged, pulled, pulped, pulsed, pumped, punned, punted, pupped, pureed, purged, purled, purred, pursed, pushed, putted, putzed, rouped, sendup, souped, spumed, supped, tumped, tupped, update, updive, updove, upends, upheld, upsend, upside, yauped.