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whoop

nomverbeverbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • //wuːp//
  • //ʍuːp//
  • //wʊp//
  • //huːp//
  • //ʍʊp//

A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.

nom

  1. 1

    A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.

    Mixed with the whoop of the crane and the roar of the grim alligator.

    [A] great whoop of victory sounded as finally they carried the fish up the beach.

    Lavender Hearts has often been stopped by the presence of some wild woman who just can't contain her whoop or moan. Now that's community!

  2. 2

    A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.

  3. 3

    A bump on a racetrack.

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    The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad […] and keep the front wheels high […]

    The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.

Étymologie

From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).

verbe

  1. 1

    To make a whoop.

    each whooping with a merry shout

    When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.

  2. 2

    To shout, to yell.

    I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

  3. 3

    To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

  4. 4

    obsolèteTo insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

    And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.

verbe

  1. 1

    familierTo beat, to strike.

  2. 2

    familierTo defeat thoroughly.

Étymologie

From a traditional African American and Southern US pronunciation of whip.

Formes

pluriel
whoops
passé
whooped
participe passé
whooped
participe présent
whooping
3ᵉ personne du singulier
whoops
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