scoop – English noun declension

English noun forms of scoop

Noun: scoop
Singularscoop
Pluralscoops

Sample Sentences

  • She kept a scoop in the dog food.
  • an ice-cream scoop
  • Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
  • I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
  • with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.
  • He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
  • "We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report." [1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]
  • The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film. [2016 November 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip”, in The Guardian:]
  • Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. [1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:]
  • This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature [1965, John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea, page 116:]
  • [T]he scoop or upward curvature in the front or nose section of a board is designed to keep the board from diving under the surface of the water when the surfer is catching a wave. [1977, Fred Hemmings, Surfing: Hawaii's Gift to the World of Sports, page 59:]
  • Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops. [1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57:]
  • A scoop of pelicans roosts on the rocks late Sunday afternoon at Natural Bridges State Beach as a surfer rides a wave. [2025 November 24, Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel:]
  • A scoop of pelicans gather in Brockliss Slough just below Genoa. [2025 July 1, Kurt Hildebrand, “Monsoon season underway in Southwest”, in The Record-Courier:]
  • TThe Egyptian goose (circled) was spotted in a scoop of pelicans. [2023 January 9, Himanshu Kaushik, “Rare sighting”, in The Times of India:]

Etymology

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel, Japanese スコップ. See: Middle English Nouns 'scope', Dutch Nouns 'schop', German Nouns 'Schüppe', English Nouns 'shovel'.

Verbs referencing "scoop"

French Nouns scoop, Finnish Nouns skuuppi, French Nouns écope, Irish Nouns scúp, German Nouns Scoop.