cloop
/klup/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
noun
verb
To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
Intransitive verb
noun
A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Yet no sooner was she departed than he sorely missed the clatter of her pattens, the cloop of her pails, the noise of her industrious broom sweeping assiduously in passages where there had been no footsteps to carry dirt."
- "At the corner of Dover Street there lay a heap of mud and street sweepings, and as we drew up just opposite, blocked by an opposing tide of carriages in Piccadilly, a small, very dapper little gentleman in dress-clothes stepped into the middle of this muck-heap, with the result that one of his dress-pumps was drawn off his unfortunate foot with a ‘cloop’ and stuck there."
- "She began walking away from the open room, toward the teddies, her shoe heels going cloop, cloop."
- "Solo songs are several repetitions of the same phrase, e.g., a liquid mellow cloop cloop cloop or peewit peewit peewit."
- "[…] I prefer Sherry to Marsala when I can get it, and the latter was the wine of which I have no doubt I heard the "cloop" just before dinner."
- "He can imitate […] any saw, cock, cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle and guggling of wine into the decanter afterwards, bee buzzing, little boy up a chimney, &c."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /klup/
- British English: /kluːp/