different between shoop vs snoop
shoop
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sho?op, IPA(key): /?u?p/
- Rhymes: -u?p
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Interjection
shoop
- (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.
- 1963, Rudy Clark, The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)
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)
- (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.
- > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091807549/o/qid=979300168/sr=8-1/026-8769325-3040456
- 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”)…
- > Now, look here. If you’re going to introduce multiple sheep into this thread, the least you could do is call them sheepae.
- 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?
- >>> Is there any tailor here who still collects own cloth by sheerinh sheeps or such?
- 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.
- 2001 January 13: “A Magee”, alt.fan.british-accent (Google group): Better Living Through Spam
Etymology 3
Alteration of shop.
Noun
shoop (plural shoops)
- (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
shoop From the web:
- https://web.whatsapp.com/
- whatsapp app
- whatsapp download
- whatsapp web
- whatsapp status
- whatsapp plus
- whatsapp app download
snoop
English
Etymology
From Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /snu?p/
- enPR: sno?op
- Rhymes: -u?p
Verb
snoop (third-person singular simple present snoops, present participle snooping, simple past and past participle snooped)
- To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
- To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
Related terms
- snoop around
Translations
Noun
snoop (plural snoops)
- The act of snooping
- One who snoops
- A private detective
Translations
References
- 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- Poons, no-ops, opson, poons, spoon
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- what snoop means
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