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.
雙語例句
1. We know some sex offenders dupe the psychologists who assess them.
我們知道有些性犯罪者會愚弄給他們做測評的心理學家。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He becomes an innocent dupe in a political scandal.
他在一起政治丑聞中成了一名無辜的受騙者。
來自辭典例句
3. I won't be his dupe any longer.
我再也不受他的騙了.
來自辭典例句
4. But he was not for a single instant the dupe of her blundering alacrity.
但是他一刻也不會上當去相信她這種冒冒失失的殷勤.
來自辭典例句
5. A person who is easily tricked or cheated a dupe.