stoop
/stup/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
verb
To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
verb
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Example Sentences
- "The old man walked with a stoop."
- "Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead."
- "At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry"
- "He stooped to tie his shoe-laces."
- "Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes."
- "Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range."
Etymology
From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stup/
- British English: /stuːp/
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- Canadian usage
- American usage