different between shoon vs shoop

English

Etymology

Equivalent to shoe +? -en.

Noun

shoon

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of shoe
   • 1686, Anonymous, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, recorded by John Aubrey in Remains of Gentilisme & Judaisme, Lansdowne Manuscripts No. 231, folio 114:

     If ever thou gave either hosen or shun
     Sitt thee downe and putt them on
     But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean
     The Whinnes shall prick thee to the bare beane

   • 1901, Anna Hempstead Branch, The heart of the road:

     Her hair shone like the sun to the girdle she had on, And the robe that she wore was of green. "Sweet child, little child, how got you there?" Down amid the grasses I found some golden shoon Wrought with fine work all about, […]

   • 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic world:

     It must be a wonderfully fine thing to be beautifully dressed like Master John, and the leather shoon were exactly the same pattern as those worn by the squire's magnificent son.

Anagrams

• Hoons, hoons

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sho?op, IPA^(key): /?u?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Etymology 1

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Interjection

shoop

1. (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.
   • 1963, Rudy Clark, The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

     If you want to know / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / If he loves you so / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / It's in his kiss.

   • 1993, Salt-N-Pepa, Shoop

     I like what ya do when you do what ya do / You make me wanna shoop / Shoop shoop ba-doop / Shoop ba-doop.

Etymology 2

Conscious back-formation from sheep on the pattern of Germanic strong declension nouns such as goose ? geese, tooth ? teeth, foot ? feet, and the similarly jocularly-formed moose ? meese.

Noun

shoop (plural sheep)

1. (slang, chiefly humorous) A sheep; specifically singular form of sheep.
   • 2001 January 13: “A Magee”, alt.fan.british-accent (Google group): Better Living Through Spam

     > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091807549/o/qid=979300168/sr=8-1/026-8769325-3040456
     I thought you were a goat not a shoop.

   • 2001 March 28: “Rick Lalonde”, alt.security.alarms (Google group): Baaah Humbug

     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.

   • 2002 January 15: “R H Draney”, alt.usage.english (Google group): Agendae

     > Now, look here. If you’re going to introduce multiple sheep into this thread, the least you could do is call them sheepae.
     > (Pronounced “sheep-eye”?)
     “Sheep” *is* plural… the singular is “shoop” (analogy “feet/foot”, “teeth/tooth”)…

   • 2002 November 6: “Jared of Europa”, rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Google group): Tailors ahoy!

     >>> Is there any tailor here who still collects own cloth by sheerinh sheeps or such?
     That’s clearly wrong… like geese is the plural of goose, sheep must be the plural of shoop. No?

   • 2009 August 21: “TimC”, alt.sysadmin.recovery (Google group): inept customer service

     If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.

Etymology 3

Alteration of shop.

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 petty, amateur fauxtography.

Anagrams

• Hoops, hoops, hospo, poohs, posho