different between screech vs whoop

English

Etymology

1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan? (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scric?n, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skr?han? (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skr?ch, IPA^(key): /sk?i?t?/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [sk?i?t?]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [sk?it?]
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Noun

screech (countable and uncountable, plural screeches)

1. A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
2. A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6

     That the night owl should sreech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty [...]

3. (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
4. A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

screech (third-person singular simple present screeches, present participle screeching, simple past and past participle screeched)

1. To make such a sound.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released

Translations

Anagrams

• creches, crèches

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