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A modification of the word "well" that expresses exasperation, frustration, and resignation. Often accompanied by a shaking of the head. The excrescent p, called a bilabial stop, found in words like yep, and nope, is somewhat like a stifled laugh ("pfft"), a quick closing off of the word, enhancing the resignation in it, and indicating that the mouth is on its way to stating something further. Sometimes spelled welp.
Wellp, looks like we should start walking, this vehicle is thoroughly wrecked.

Cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman (creator of 'MAD' magazine) used the word in a piece called "The Grasshopper and the Ant" (Esquire - May, 1960). Ant, having just seen a caterpillar devoured by a bird says, "Wellp... Back to work. Grain to gather."
wellp by Allstayt September 3, 2014
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(verb) welled up, welling up

To begin to form tears. The incipient and ofttimes unfinished stage of crying; water begins to accumulate within the eyes, without necessarily doing so in such abundance as to form rolling tears.
Man, I watched your video and just fuckin' welled up. And I do not well up for nothing.
well up by Kurisuchan June 25, 2016
Word of the Day on August 18, 2019

Well up in the rage cage 

A phrase used when somebody is angry when something irritates them or is hurtful physically or mentally to them!
Me: Ah man, i dropped my Ice cream cone
Ian: Ah, i bet you are well up in the rage cage
"Well you" (shortly just "wu") - a misspelling meaning good job, good one, nice one...etc. - meant either in honest or in ironical way as a spontaneous reaction on someone's action.

Originally coming from czech language's misspeling phrase "dobře ty" (dobře - well, ty - you) widely used amongst teenagers, but lately also spreading within wide public and also greatly deprecated by linguists and word-splitters.

It was originally meant to be just a positive would-be funny phrase, but subsequently became a sort of parasitic "lol-phrase" commenting someone's action or status without the one's instigation and either as a mean of honest praise, exaggeration (e.g. on someone's trivial success) or just "loling" on someone's failure or embarrassing event.
It can be occasionaly combined with a raised forefinger pointing to the person while saying it"

Many people also start using it in a joke as parody on the phrase itself as a kind of their defiance of it, but subsequently tend to use it excessivly as parasitic phrase.

Finally, 3rd or even 1st person mutations are also used with the same meaning.
e.g. - well he, well they, well me
"I finally managed to fix the problem." - "wellu";

one scores at a game - "WELLU!" *pointing forefinger* (could be a way of exaggeration);

"Unfortunately, I won't come tonight" - "wellu..." (expressing one's disapointment; fed-upness becase of someone's last minute cancel of appointment);

"ehm, i don't have the money yet...sorry" - "wellu" (expressing something like "wat?...hmmm...perfect...i was already counting with it..." when one has run out of words, don't know what to say in a pure surprise or it would be too long or worthless to say anything);

"She suddenly suprised me in underwear" - "wellu :D"

"I smashed my bike yesterday" - "lol...wellu"

one steps into a poo - "wellu"
wellu by MAFATOR August 9, 2010

Wellephant 

An obese female or male that smells and appears to have been down in a dark damp well for some period of time.
p1: "man this club is bumpin!"

p2: "ya bro, just watch out for the wellephant at the bar"

p1: "you see that 5'6", 300 pnd wellephant in the thong!!"

him: "how was spring break bro?"

me: "it sucked, was just herds of wellephants everywhere, big ass booger bears"
Wellephant by Jollypanic November 20, 2010

Cock Wallup 

Like the 'Dick Whip'...the smacking, or slapping of an erect or semi-erect cock on someone (usually a female), in a 'take that' kind of way. The most common place is the face and/or mouth, but a cock wallup can be given on any part of the body.
Oh yeah Beeeeoootch...now ya get a Cock Wallup!
Cock Wallup by scorpi October 30, 2008

Kuala Wallup 

when a woman has a serious migraine that will not go away, a man, preferably from Australila, will jizz on her forehead to alleviate the pain.
My migraine was out of control this weekend. That is, until the guy who plays Wolverine gave me a Kuala Wallup.
Kuala Wallup by JL1982 April 8, 2011