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Dustup

Definition: Dustup

Dustup

Noun

1. An angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words".

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


Synonyms: Dustup

Synonyms: quarrel (n), row (n), run-in (n), words (n), wrangle (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Dustup

Language Translations for "dustup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

trazirë (bewilderment, commotion, convulsion, disorder, fuss, hustle, outbreak, pother, qualm, queasiness, queasy, riot, ruction, shindy, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval), përleshje (conflict, fight, fighting, fray, melee, mix in, mix up, scramble, scrimmage, scrum, scuffle, set to, skirmish, tussle), kacafytje (fracas, scrimmage, scuffle, wrestle). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

кавга (altercation, broil, disagreement, doing, hassle, jangle, odds, quarrel, row, ruffle, rumpus, run in, scrape, set to, shindig, shindy, strife, warm words, wrangle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ustupday

   

Russian 

  

перебранка (altercation, dust-up, hassle, high words, slanging match, squabble). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

patırtı (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, disorder, fracas, noise, plump, riot, roughhouse, row, rumpus, sound and fury, stir, to-do, tumult, welter), kavga kıyamet (affray, fracas, shemozzle), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter), şamata (carrying-on, carryings on, conviviality, din, great noise, hell, hilarity, hoo-ha, hubbub, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, riot, ripsnorter, row, shindy, uproar, whoopee). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dustup

Derivations

Words beginning with "dustup": dustups. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Dustup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: destep, destop, Dositube, Dustov, dutp, Gunstrup, ukstu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dustup

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-p-s-t-u-u"

-2 letters: dups, dust, puds, puts, spud, stud, tups.

-3 letters: dup, pud, pus, put, sup, tup, ups, uts.

-4 letters: up, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "d-p-s-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: dustups.

 

+2 letters: pustuled.

 

+3 letters: outpushed, superstud.

 

+4 letters: pustulated, sculptured, stupendous, subproduct, superstuds, suppurated, turpitudes, undisputed.

 

+5 letters: duplicitous, outproduces, quadruplets, subproducts, unsupported, unsuspected.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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