different between shoop vs shool

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English s?ofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skufl?, *sk?fl? (“shovel”), equivalent to shove +? -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).

Noun

shool (plural shools)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) A shovel.
   • 1611 And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 1611 edition)
   • 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)
2. (obsolete or dialectal) A spade.
   • 2010 "shool spade see shovel" (A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2 by Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, U of Minnesota Press, 2010, page 785)

Verb

shool (third-person singular simple present shools, present participle shooling, simple past and past participle shooled)

1. To move materials with a shovel.

   The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
   • 1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
3. To shuffle or shamble.
4. To go about begging.

References

• Lexic.us, Retrieved 2013-02-14

  Definition of Shool 1. to shovel [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shovel

• TheFreeDictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14

  shool n (Engineering / Tools) a dialect word for shovel,

• Dictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14

  shool — n a dialect word for shovel,

• Merriam-Webster.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14

  Definition of SHOOL...

  1 chiefly dial : to drag or scrape along : shamble, shuffle

  2: to loaf or idle about begging : loiter, saunter

Etymology 2

Noun

shool (plural shools)

1. Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazic synagogue”).

Anagrams

• Loosh, holos, hools