different between zoop vs roop

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

Alternative forms

• roup (Scotland)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English ropen, from Old English hr?pan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hr?pan? (“to call, shout, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Scots roup (“to shout, roar, cry out loudly”), Saterland Frisian ropa (“to call, shout”), Dutch roepen (“to shout, cry out”), German rufen (“to call, cry, shout”), Swedish ropa (“to call, cry out, shout”), Icelandic hrópa (“to cry out”).

Verb

roop (third-person singular simple present roops, present participle rooping, simple past and past participle rooped)

1. (intransitive) To cry; shout.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To roar; make a great noise.

Derived terms

• roopit

Etymology 2

From Middle English rop, from Old English hr?p (“clamor, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *hr?p, from Proto-Germanic *hr?paz, *hr?p? (“shout, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Dutch roep (“a call, cry, shout”), German Ruf (“a call, cry, reputation”), Swedish rop (“call, cry, shout”).

Noun

roop (plural roops)

1. A cry; a call.
2. Hoarseness.

Derived terms

• roopy

Etymology 3

From roop (“hoarseness”).

Verb

roop (third-person singular simple present roops, present participle rooping, simple past and past participle rooped)

1. (transitive, usually with up) To make hoarse.

   I am rooped up.

Derived terms

• rooped up

Anagrams

• poor, poro-

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Aslian *ru?m ~ *ru?p (“friend”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rum ~ *ruum ~ *ru?m (“to assemble”).

Noun

roop

1. companion; friend

References

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ru?p/

  Rhymes: -ù?p

Etymology

From Old Norse hrópa, from Proto-Germanic *hr?pan?.

Verb

roop (preterite rooft, supine rofft)

1. to cry out, call, shout