shoop

See also: Shoop

English

WOTD – 8 January 2025

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sho͞op, IPA^(key): /ʃuːp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃup/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• 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)

1. (Northern England) The fruit of the rose; rosehip.

Etymology 2

A meaningless syllable.

Interjection

shoop

1. (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.

   Coordinate terms: doo, la, tra-la-la

   • 1963 (date written), Rudy Clark, “It’s in His Kiss [The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)]”, in It’s in His Kiss (Capitol; 4984) (single), performed by Merry Clayton, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.: Capitol Records, published 10 June 1963:

     If you want to know / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / If he loves you so / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / It's in his kiss.

   • 1982 June 21 (date released), Steven Nicholas Jolley, Tony Swain, “Shy Boy”, in Deep Sea Skiving, performed by Bananarama, London: London Recordings, →OCLC:

     But don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / And don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / Don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / And don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh)

   • 1993 September 21 (date released), Sandra Denton, Cheryl James, “Shoop”, in Very Necessary (Next Plateau/London; 422 828 392-2), performed by Salt-N-Pepa, New York, N.Y.: Next Plateau Entertainment/London Records, →OCLC:

     I like what ya do when you do what ya do / You make me wanna shoop / Shoop shoop ba-doop / Shoop ba-doop

   • 1995 October 3 (date recorded), Babyface [pseudonym; Kenneth Brian Edmonds], “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)”, in Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album, performed by Whitney Houston, New York, N.Y.: Arista Records, published 6 November 1995, →OCLC:

     But there comes a point when / When we exhale (yeah, yeah, say) / Shoop, shoop, shoop / Shoo be doop shoop shoop (yeah)

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)

2. (slang, chiefly humorous) Used as a singular form of sheep: an individual sheep.
   • 2001 January 13, A[nne] Magee, “Better Living Through Spam”, in alt.fan.british-accent‎ (Usenet):

     I thought you were a goats^{[sic – meaning goat]} not a shoop.

   • 2001 March 29, Rick Lalonde, “Thanks Paul Rumpleforeskin :-)”, in alt.security.alarms‎ (Usenet):

     The sheep in Belgium have no hoof and mouth disease because they all wear oversized rubber boots. […] The process is quite simple: with the sheep firmly planted in the boots the shepherd—let's call him Rumplestiltskin for arguement's^{[sic – meaning argument's]} sake sneaks up behind the sheep (or the singular shoop) and inserts his feet in the boots behind the shoop.

   • [2009 August 21, TimC, quoting “Hetta on RHOD”, “[I]nept customer service”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery‎ (Usenet):

     If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.]

Translations

sheep — see sheep

Etymology 4

Alteration of shop, a clipping of photoshop (“digitally altered image”).

Noun

shoop (plural shoops)

2. (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.

Translations

image that has been modified using image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression

Finnish: muokattu kuva, kuvanmuokkaus Macedonian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Shoop (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hoops, hoops, hospo, poohs, posho