Noun: groop
| Singular | groop |
| Plural | groops |
Sample Sentences
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The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, … [1816, James Cleland, Annals of Glasgow, Digitized edition, published 2007, page 373:]
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Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw. [2008, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones:]
Nouns inflected like groop
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-West Germanic *grōpu, from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove. See: Middle English Nouns '
grope', Dutch Nouns '
groep', Swedish Nouns '
grop'.