stoupen

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === stoup, stoupe, stowpe, stowppe stupen, stupin (Early Middle English) stoupi (Kent) === Etymology === From Old English stūpian, from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈstuːpən/ === Verb === stoupen (third-person singular simple present stoupeth, present participle stoupende, stoupynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle stouped) To bend over; to stoop or hunch. To bend the head or eyes forwards; to slouch. To be regularly or habitually diagonally tilted or bent. To become bent or inclined from a blow. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: stoop (obsolete stoup) Middle Scots: stoup === References === “stǒupen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.