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scrooping

scrooping is the present participle and gerund of scroop.

Meaning of scroop

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.

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Questions about scrooping

What is scrooping the present participle and gerund of?
Scrooping is the present participle and gerund of scroop.

Words near scrooping in the dictionary

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

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