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See also: Shoop

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English schoupe, from Old Norse *hjúpa (rosehip), from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (haw, hawthorn, thornbush, rosehip). Cognate with Faroese hjúpa (rosehip), Old English hēope (hip, rosehip). Doublet of hip.

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Noun

shoop (plural shoops)

  1. (Northern England) The fruit of the rose; rosehip.

Etymology 2

A meaningless syllable.

Interjection

shoop

  1. (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.
    Coordinate terms: doo, la, tra-la-la

Etymology 3

A domestic shoop (etymology 2, sense 1).

A deliberate back-formation from sheep on the pattern of nouns which underwent Germanic i-mutation, such as feet from foot, geese from goose, and teeth from tooth; compare the similarly humorously formed meese from moose.

Noun

shoop (plural sheep)

  1. (slang, chiefly humorous) Used as a singular form of sheep: an individual sheep.
    • 2001 January 13, A Magee, “Better Living Through Spam”, in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet):
      I thought you were a goats not a shoop.
    • 2001 March 29, Rick Lalonde, “Thanks Paul Rumpleforeskin :-)”, in alt.security.alarms (Usenet):
      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 sake sneaks up behind the sheep (or the singular shoop) and inserts his feet in the boots behind the shoop.
    • nept customer service”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):
      If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.]
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Etymology 4

A shoop (etymology 3, sense 1) consisting of a photograph of a tombstone with a fake inscription.

Alteration of shop, a clipping of photoshop (digitally altered image).

Noun

shoop (plural shoops)

  1. (Internet slang) 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.
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