different between cloop vs cloom

English

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /klu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Interjection

cloop

1. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
   • 1862, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip

     One of the boys frankly informed me there was goose for dinner; and when a cheerful cloop was heard from a neighbouring room, told me that was Pa drawing the corks.

Translations

Anagrams

• colpo-

English

Etymology

A variant of clam (“to clog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klu?m/

Verb

cloom (third-person singular simple present clooms, present participle clooming, simple past and past participle cloomed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To close with glutinous matter.
   • 1965, Murray Hoyt, The World of Bees

     There also were wicker skeps or hives, and these were cloomed. This meant that they were banked with a mixture of dirt and cow manure to protect them from the weather and the cold

References

cloom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Colom., Moloc