dustup

Other forms of dustup

plural

dustups·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dustup

What does dustup mean?

dustup means "an angry dispute".

How many syllables are in dustup?

dustup has 2 syllables: du-stup. The stress falls on "du".

What is another word for dustup?

Close synonyms include quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dustup a common word?

dustup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.