different between whoop vs shoop

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

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

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