whoop
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).
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edit- enPR: wo͞op, hwo͞op, IPA(key): /wuːp/, /ʍuːp/ or enPR: ho͞op, IPA(key): /huːp/
- Rhymes: -uːp
- Homophone: hoop (for one pronunciation of the noun and the associated intransitive verb)
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editwhoop (plural whoops)
- A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
- 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 30:
- [A] great whoop of victory sounded as finally they carried the fish up the beach.
- A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
- A bump on a racetrack.
- Synonym of whoop-de-doo
- 2006, Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know, page 104:
- The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad […] and keep the front wheels high […]
- 2009, Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages, page 184:
- The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.
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Verb
editwhoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)
- (intransitive) To make a whoop.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, Beggars:
- each whooping with a merry shout
- 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals:
- When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
- (transitive) To shout, to yell.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
- To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
- (transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
- And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.
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edit- See also Thesaurus:shout
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Etymology 2
editFrom a traditional African American and Southern US pronunciation of whip.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
edit- enPR: wo͝op, hwo͝op, IPA(key): /wʊp/, /ʍʊp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editwhoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)
- (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.
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edit- English terms inherited from Middle English
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