shoop
/ʃup/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
noun
An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of amateur, petty fauxtography.
Example Sentences
- "If you want to know / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / If he loves you so / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / It's in his kiss."
- "But don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / And don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / Don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / And don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh)"
- "I like what ya do when you do what ya do / You make me wanna shoop / Shoop shoop ba-doop / Shoop ba-doop"
- "But there comes a point when / When we exhale (yeah, yeah, say) / Shoop, shoop, shoop / Shoo be doop shoop shoop (yeah)"
- "I thought you were a goats^([sic – meaning goat]) not a shoop."
- "The sheep in Belgium have no hoof and mouth disease because they all wear oversized rubber boots. […] The process is quite simple: with the sheep firmly planted in the boots the shepherd—let's call him Rumplestiltskin for arguement's^([sic – meaning argument's]) sake sneaks up behind the sheep (or the singular shoop) and inserts his feet in the boots behind the shoop."
Etymology
* As a German surname, Americanized from Schupp. * Also an Americanized spelling of Dutch and North German Schoop, from Middle Dutch schoepe and Middle Low German schōpe (“ladle”) (for which see modern Schöpflöffel).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, Schoop, schoepe, schōpe, schoupe, *hjúpa
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʃup/
- British English: /ʃuːp/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Shoops (plural)
shoup (alternative)
choop (alternative)
sheep (plural)
shoops (present, singular)
shooping (participle, present)
shooped (participle, past)
shooped (past)