different between outcry vs whoop

English

Etymology

From Middle English outcry, outcri, outcrye, equivalent to out- +? cry.The verb is from Middle English outcrien.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK, US) enPR: out?kr?, IPA^(key): /?a?tk?a?/

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: out-kr??, IPA^(key): /a?t?k?a?/

Noun

outcry (plural outcries)

1. A loud cry or uproar.

2. (figuratively) A strong protest.
3. (India, archaic) An auction.

   to send goods to an outcry

Translations

Verb

outcry (third-person singular simple present outcries, present participle outcrying, simple past and past participle outcried)

1. (intransitive) To cry out.
   • 1919, Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1

     I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.

2. (transitive) To cry louder than.
   • 2003, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)

     ...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...

   • 2007, Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)

     The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.

Anagrams

• cry out

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-Germanic *hw?pan? (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic ???????????????????? (??pan, “to boast”), Old English hw?pan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English w?p (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-Germanic *w?paz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (w?pjan, “to cry out”)).

Alternative forms

• hoop, howp

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo?op, hwo?op, IPA^(key): /wu?p/, /?u?p/ or enPR: ho?op, IPA^(key): /hu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p
• Homophone: hoop (for one pronunciation of the noun and the associated intransitive verb)

Noun

whoop (plural whoops)

1. A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
2. A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
3. A bump on a racetrack.

   Synonym of whoop-de-doo

   • 2006, Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know (page 104)

     The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad […] and keep the front wheels high […]

   • 2009, Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages (page 184)

     The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.

Translations

Verb

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

1. (intransitive) To make a whoop.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Beggars

     each whooping with a merry shout

   • 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals

     When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.

2. (transitive) To shout, to yell.
3. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:shout

Derived terms

• whoop it up

Translations

Etymology 2

Corruption of whip.

Alternative forms

• whup

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo?op, hwo?op, IPA^(key): /w?p/, /??p/

Verb

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

1. (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
2. (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.

Derived terms

• whoop someone's ass
• open a can of whoop ass

Translations

See also

• whoopee
• whoops