different between zoop vs doop

English

Etymology

Imitative; compare zap, zip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Interjection

zoop

1. (colloquial) Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
   • 1989, Charles A. Murray, Catherine Bly Cox, Apollo, the race to the moon (page 223)

     "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."

   • 1999, School Library Journal (volume 45, issues 1-6, page 180)

     On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.

   • 1999, Popular Photography (November 1999)

     And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets […]

Anagrams

• Pozo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?p

Verb

zoop

1. singular past indicative of zuipen

English

Noun

doop (plural doops)

1. Alternative form of dop (cup in which diamond is cut)

Anagrams

• podo-, pood

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?p/
• Hyphenation: doop
• Rhymes: -o?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dôpe, from Old Dutch d?pa, from Proto-Germanic *daup?. Equivalent to a deverbal from dopen.

Noun

doop m (plural dopen, diminutive doopje n)

1. baptism

   Synonym: doopsel

2. christening
3. (Belgium) hazing

Synonyms

• (hazing): ontgroening (Netherlands)

Derived terms

• (baptism): doopboek, doopceel, dopeling, kinderdoop, vuurdoop, waterdoop, wederdoop
• (hazing): studentendoop

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

doop

1. first-person singular present indicative of dopen
2. imperative of dopen