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clooping

clooping is the present participle and gerund 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 clooping

What is clooping the present participle and gerund of?
Clooping is the present participle and gerund of cloop.

Words near clooping in the dictionary

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

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