different between shoop vs swoop

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

From Middle English swopen, from Old English sw?pan (“to sweep”). See also sweep.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sw?p, IPA^(key): /?swu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Verb

swoop (third-person singular simple present swoops, present participle swooping, simple past and past participle swooped)

1. (intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.

   The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.

2. (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.

   The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.

3. (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
   • Quoted in 1971, The Scriblerian (volumes 4-5, page 2)

     And his Eagles, which can with the same ease as a kite swoops a chicken, snatch up a strong built Chamber of wood 12 foot square, & well crampt & fortified with Iron, with all its furniture, & a man besides, & carry it to the Clouds?

4. (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
   • 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

     And now at last you come to swoop it all.

   • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing

     The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.

5. (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 1 p. 6[1]:

     Proude Tamer swoopes along, with such a lustie traine

     As fits so brave a flood two Countries that divides:

6. (Britain, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
   • 1989, Michael Bettsworth, Marking Time: A Prison Memoir (page 32)

     He was forever diving into dustbins or swooping on to the ground for cigarette ends.

   • 2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang

     Swooping is picking up discarded cigarette butts from the exercise yard and anywhere else they can be found.

Translations

Noun

swoop (plural swoops)

1. An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.

   The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop.

2. A sudden act of seizing.
   • 1612, John Webster, The White Devil

     Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

3. (music) A quick passage from one note to the next.
   • 2008, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies (page 281)

     Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops.

Translations

See also

• one fell swoop