"toupee" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /tuːˈpeɪ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-toupee.wav Forms: toupees [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪ Etymology: 1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|toupet||small tuft of hair, forelock}} French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), {{der|en|frm|toupet||small tuft of hair, forelock}} Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), {{der|en|fro|toupet||small tuft of hair, forelock}} Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), {{der|en|frk|*topp||summit, crest, tuft of hair}} Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*tuppaz||summit, crest, tuft of hair}} Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), {{cog|odt|topp||top}} Old Dutch topp (“top”), {{cog|nl|top}} Dutch top, {{cog|ofs|top||summit, crest, tuft of hair}} Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), {{cog|ang|top||summit, crest, tuft of hair}} Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), {{cog|goh|zopf||end, summit, tuft of hair}} Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), {{cog|non|toppr||tuft of hair, forelock}} Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} toupee (plural toupees)
  1. A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man. Categories (topical): Hair Synonyms: hairpiece
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  2. (obsolete) A small tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair. Tags: obsolete
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  3. (obsolete) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig, worn by both sexes. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Headwear
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: toupe, toupée, toupet Derived forms: toupeed, toupee fallacy Translations (wig): тупе (tupe) [neuter] (Bulgarian), tupé [common-gender] (Danish), hiuslisäke (Finnish), tupee (Finnish), toupet [masculine] (French), Toupet [neuter] (German), περουκίνι (peroukíni) [neuter] (Greek), tupé (Hungarian), toppè [masculine] (Italian), (katsura) (Japanese), 가발 (gabal) (Korean), tsiigháshchíín (Navajo), tupé [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tupé [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), tupet [masculine] (Polish), tupecik [masculine] (Polish), peruczka [feminine] (Polish), пари́к (parík) [masculine] (Russian), tupé [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), peluca de hombre [feminine] (Spanish), peluquín (Spanish), bisoñé [masculine] (Spanish), tupé (Swedish), tambulok (Tagalog)
Disambiguation of 'wig': 48 3 50

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "tupé"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "toppè"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "wig",
      "word": "鬘"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "sense": "wig",
      "word": "가발"
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      "sense": "wig",
      "word": "tsiigháshchíín"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "пари́к"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "wig",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "tupé"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
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}

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