shoop – English noun declension

English noun forms of shoop

Noun: shoop
Singularshoop
Pluralshoops; sheep

Sample Sentences

  • I thought you were a goats^([sic – meaning goat]) not a shoop. [2001 January 13, A[nne] Magee, “Better Living Through Spam”, in alt.fan.british-accent (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. [2001 March 29, Rick Lalonde, “Thanks Paul Rumpleforeskin :-)”, in alt.security.alarms (Usenet):]
  • If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop. [[2009 August 21, TimC, quoting “Hetta on RHOD”, “[I]nept customer service”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):]

Nouns inflected like shoop

shoop,

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'schoupe', Old Norse Nouns '*hjúpa', Faroese Nouns 'hjúpa', Old English Nouns 'hēope'.