dorp

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/dɔː(ɹ)p/

Definition of dorp

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (South-Africa)A village or small town; a town considered provincial.
    “When the aforesaid alderman or another wishes to express mild contemptuosity for his fellows and himself in future I would suggest “old fossils” or “old has beens,” or “old fogies,” then the Sir Galahads that are always riding—or driving—about in this progressive dorp will not have any cause to complain.”
    “‘You can't hang about this dorp doing nothing.’”
    “I took on a case in the little dorp of Villiers in the Orange Free State.”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch dorp, which see for more. Doublet of dorf and thorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.

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