scoop
/skup/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
noun
The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
noun
A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
noun
The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
noun
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
noun
A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
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Etymology
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel, Japanese スコップ.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skup/
- British English: /skuːp/