Tup

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Template:Wiktionary As a noun, a tup is a ram (male sheep). As a verb it describes copulation by a ram with a ewe (female sheep).

Colloquially, tup refers to the male role in human sexual intercourse, especially if illicit. The term is used to effect in William Shakespeare's Othello, in which Iago taunts Brabantio, Desdemona's father, by shouting to him that:

Even now, now, very now

an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.

Act I, scene 1