different between shriek vs whoop

English

Alternative forms

• shreek (obsolete)

Etymology

From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earier screak, skricke (bef. 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan?, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

shriek (plural shrieks)

1. A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.

   • Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:

     Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek?

2. (Britain, slang) An exclamation mark.

Translations

Verb

shriek (third-person singular simple present shrieks, present participle shrieking, simple past and past participle shrieked)

1. (intransitive) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
   • At this she shriek'd aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
2. (transitive) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
   • 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh

     She shrieked his name to the dark woods.

Derived terms

• ashriek

Translations

Anagrams

• Ihrkes, hikers, shrike

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