colloq. Now chiefly dial. [Shortened f. STUPID.] A stupid person, a fool.
1762. Bickerstaffe, Love in Village, II. ii. Was there ever such a poor stupe!
1813. Sketches of Character (ed. 2), I. 11. How could they think of bringing that stupe of a Miss Newton?
1840. Lady C. Bury, Hist. Flirt, v. Of all the silent stupes, commend me to Captain Thelwal.
1876. Blackmore, Cripps, xxxv. ‘What a stupe I must be,’ she continued to herself, ‘to imagine that the boy could be in love!’
