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scoop
English
Etymology
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skupp?, *skuppij?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”)..
Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German sch?pe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sko?op, IPA(key): /sku?p/
- Rhymes: -u?p
Noun
scoop (plural scoops)
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
- Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
Synonyms
- (tool): scooper
- (amount held by a scoop): scoopful
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped)
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (slang) To pick (someone) up
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English scoop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skup/
Noun
scoop m (plural scoops)
- scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English scoop. Compare scoprire (“uncover”), scoperta (“discovery”).
Noun
scoop m (invariable)
- scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)
Anagrams
- scopo, scopò
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bucketful
English
Etymology
From bucket +? -ful. Compare Old English b?cful, b?cfull (“bucketful”).
Noun
bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)
- The quantity contained in a bucket.
- Synonym: pailful
- (by extension) a large quantity
- It was raining in bucketfuls.
Translations
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