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scroop

[ skroop ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to emit a harsh, grating sound:

    The gate scrooped as he swung it shut.



noun

  1. a scrooping sound.
  2. ability to make a rustling sound added to silk or rayon fabrics during finishing by treating them with certain acids.

scroop

/ Čő°ì°ùłÜː±è /

verb

  1. intr to emit a grating or creaking sound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. such a sound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of scroop1

1780–90; blend of scrape and whoop
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of scroop1

C18: of imitative origin
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Example Sentences

The same effect is achieved with a silk taffeta garment, featuring a sound called “scroop,” a combination of the words “scrape” and “whoop.“

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Cambridge and Scroop has other views, which they nobly hid within their own bosoms, lest they should injure others; but this man was a traitor indeed, and he, ere his death, gave this letter, it seems, into the King's own hands, as that which began his communication with the enemy.

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I had the guard on the box with me, and as we were going pretty hard down the High Street at Guildford I heard the wheel “scroop.”

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Scroop, of Bolton, in Yorkshire, who succeeded his father in his title, in 1592, made governor of Carlisle Castle, and warden of the West Marches, in 1593, and K. G. in 1599.

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The youth readily undertook the commission; but, from some mistake, instead of conveying it to Lady Scroop, he carried it to her sister, the Countess of Nottingham.

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