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roop

/ɹuːp/

roop verb: to cry; shout.

Verb

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

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To cry; shout.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive) To roar; make a great noise.
  3. (dialectal, transitive, usually, with-up) To make hoarse.
    • I am rooped up.

Noun

roop (plural roops)

  1. Hoarseness.

Forms of roop

Verb
third-person singular presentroops
present participlerooping
past participlerooped
pastrooped
alternative Scotlandroup
Noun
pluralroops

Origin of roop

From Middle English ropen (“to cry out”), from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“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 roupe (“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”).

Words formed from roop

Words that rhyme with roop

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Questions about roop

What does roop mean?
Roop means to cry; shout.
What part of speech is roop?
Roop can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce roop?
Roop is pronounced /ɹuːp/.
What is the past tense of roop?
The past tense of roop is rooped.

Words near roop in the dictionary

  1. roomy
  2. roon
  3. rooned
  4. Rooney
  5. Rooneyesque
  6. roop
  7. Roopa
  8. rooped
  9. rooped up
  10. roopee
  11. roopees

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