Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dialectal (Scotch) perfect participle of leap.

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Examples

  • “Through the help of the Lord I have luppen ower a wall,” cried poor Mause, as her horse was, by her rude attendants, brought up to leap the turf enclosure of a deserted fold, in which feat her curch flew off, leaving her grey hairs uncovered.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • "Through the help of the Lord I have luppen ower a wall," cried poor

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • "Through the help of the Lord I have luppen ower a wall," cried poor

    Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

  • How the gentleman was dressed tradition does not say, but that the ladies were all in their smocks; and one of them, happening unluckily to have a smock which was considerably too short to answer all the purposes of that piece of dress, our farmer was so tickled that he involuntarily burst out with a loud laugh: 'Weel luppen, Maggy wi' the short sark! 'and recollecting himself, instantly spurred his horse to the top of his speed.

    Selected English Letters Various 1913

  • How the gentleman was dressed tradition does not say; but that the ladies were all in their smocks: and one of them happening unluckily to have a smock which was considerably too short to answer all the purpose of that piece of dress, our farmer was so tickled that he involuntarily burst out with a loud laugh, "Weel luppen, Maggy wi 'the short sark!" and recollecting himself, instantly spurred his horse to the top of his speed.

    The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

  • How the gentleman was dressed tradition does not say; but that the ladies were all in their smocks: and one of them happening unluckily to have a smock which was considerably too short to answer all the purpose of that piece of dress, our farmer was so tickled, that he involuntarily burst out, with a loud laugh, "Weel luppen, Maggy wi 'the short sark!" and recollecting himself, instantly spurred his horse to the top of his speed.

    The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

  • "luppen in" to a too capacious pocket; for the nature of the salmon has not changed, and they are still "gey queer," and are found occasionally in "gey queer" places.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • I jalouse it's mebbes luppen in whan I was wadin 'the watter, "he said with artless smile.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

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