different between whoop vs whistle
whoop
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)
- A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
- A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
- 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)
- (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.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, Beggars
- (transitive) To shout, to yell.
- To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
- (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)
- (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.
Derived terms
- whoop someone's ass
- open a can of whoop ass
Translations
See also
- whoopee
- whoops
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whistle
English
Etymology
From Middle English whistlen, from Old English hwistlan, hwistlian (“to whistle”), from Proto-Germanic *hwistl?n? (“to make a hissing sound”). Cognate with Icelandic hvísla (“to whisper”), Russian ???????? (svistet?, “to whistle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?sl?/, /??sl?/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
Noun
whistle (countable and uncountable, plural whistles)
- A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- An act of whistling.
- A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
- the whistle of the wind in the trees
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
- (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
- Let's […] drink the other cup to wet our whistles.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
whistle (third-person singular simple present whistles, present participle whistling, simple past and past participle whistled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
- Never whistle at a funeral.
- She was whistling a happy tune.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
- The stream train whistled as it passed by.
- (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
- A bullet whistled past.
- (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- whistle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Whistle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- whilest
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