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rooped up

rooped up adjective: suffering from any affection of the throat or chest which renders the voice hoarse.

Adjective

rooped up (comparative more rooped up, superlative most rooped up)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal, intransitive) Suffering from any affection of the throat or chest which renders the voice hoarse.
    • I am rooped up.

Forms of rooped up

comparativemore rooped up
superlativemost rooped up
alternative formrouped up

Questions about rooped up

What does rooped up mean?
Rooped up means suffering from any affection of the throat or chest which renders the voice hoarse.
What part of speech is rooped up?
Rooped up is an adjective.

Words near rooped up in the dictionary

  1. Rooney
  2. Rooneyesque
  3. roop
  4. Roopa
  5. rooped
  6. rooped up
  7. roopee
  8. roopees
  9. rooping
  10. roopit
  11. roops

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