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clooped

clooped is the simple past and past participle of cloop.

Meaning of cloop

Verb

cloop (third-person singular simple present cloops, present participle clooping, simple past and past participle clooped)

  1. (intransitive) To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
    • The young men brought up the rear, each with a basket, from which there came ever and anon a cool clooping noise, maddeningly suggestive of refreshing drinks imprisoned within the wicker.1872, [Mary Elizabeth] Braddon, “Mr. Walgrave indulges his Social Instincts”, in To the Bitter End […], volume I, London: John Maxwell and Co. […], →OCLC, page 89

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Questions about clooped

What is clooped the simple past and past participle of?
Clooped is the simple past and past participle of cloop.

Words near clooped in the dictionary

  1. Cloonans
  2. Clooney
  3. Clooneyesque
  4. Clooneys
  5. cloop
  6. clooped
  7. clooping
  8. cloops
  9. cloor
  10. clootie
  11. clootie dumpling

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