doup

plural doups · alternative dowp

1. ScotlandThe bottom end of something; the human buttocks.

   on the eve of Ellison's wedding they took him as he was going into his house and took off his breeks and tarred his dowp and the soles of his feet and stuck feathers on them and then they threw him into the water-trough, as was the custom.

   1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16

2. ScotlandA cigarette butt.

   They were getting stuff, empty bottles and doups to smoke, getting matches off men to light them.

   2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 53