shoop

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sho͞op, IPA(key): /ʃuːp/ (General American) IPA(key): /ʃup/ Rhymes: -uːp === Etymology 1 === From Middle English schoupe, from Old Norse *hjúpa (“rosehip”), from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (“haw, hawthorn, thornbush, rosehip”). Cognate with Faroese hjúpa (“rosehip”), Old English hēope (“hip, rosehip”). Doublet of hip. ==== Alternative forms ==== shoup, choop ==== Noun ==== shoop (plural shoops) (Northern England) The fruit of the rose; rosehip. === Etymology 2 === A meaningless syllable. ==== Interjection ==== shoop (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics. Coordinate terms: doo, la, tra-la-la === Etymology 3 === A deliberate back-formation from sheep on the pattern of nouns which underwent Germanic i-mutation, such as feet from foot, geese from goose, and teeth from tooth; compare the similarly humorously formed meese from moose. ==== Noun ==== shoop (plural sheep) (nonstandard, chiefly humorous) Used as a singular form of sheep: an individual sheep. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 4 === Alteration of shop, a clipping of photoshop (“digitally altered image”). ==== Noun ==== shoop (plural shoops) (Internet slang) An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of amateur, petty fauxtography. ==== Verb ==== shoop (third-person singular simple present shoops, present participle shooping, simple past and past participle shooped) To digitally alter an image. ===== Translations ===== === Further reading === Shoop (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Hoops, hoops, hospo, poohs, posho