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scroop

scroop verb: to make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.

Verb

scroop (third-person singular simple present scroops, present participle scrooping, simple past and past participle scrooped)

  1. To make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.
    • I exclaimed in a loud voice, scrooping back my chair on the brick floor and standing up.1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 628 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston )
  2. To produce a rustling sound, like that from friction between silk fibers.
    • The friction causes the silk to scroop.

Noun

scroop (plural scroops)

  1. A rustling sound like that produced from friction between silk fibers.

Forms of scroop

Verb
third-person singular presentscroops
present participlescrooping
past participlescrooped
pastscrooped
Noun
pluralscroops

Origin of scroop

Imitative.

Phrases with scroop

Questions about scroop

What does scroop mean?
Scroop means to make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.
What part of speech is scroop?
Scroop can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of scroop?
The past tense of scroop is scrooped.

Words near scroop in the dictionary

  1. scrooging
  2. scroonch
  3. scroonched
  4. scroonches
  5. scroonching
  6. scroop
  7. scrooped
  8. scrooping
  9. scroops
  10. scroot
  11. scrootch

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