http://wordie.org/words/dupe Comments for the word 'Dupe' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/dupe#comments Because they believe the bird was...well, not too smart. :-) Great etymology, sionnach--thanks! Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:32:27 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/dupe#comments http://wordie.org/words/dupe#comments This comes from a bird! The French word huppe means a certain small, elaborately crested bird, which we call the hoopoe. In Middle French the phrase du huppe ("of the hoopoe") became slang duppe, meaning a dupe, and passed into English with the same meaning.<br /><br />Wordcraft archives, September 2004 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:38:11 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/dupe#comments