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hoopoe|ˈhuːpuː|
Also 7 hoopo, 7–8 hoopoop, 7– hoopoo.
[app. an alteration of the earlier hoop (n.3), with partial assimilation to L. upupa, formed on the cry (up up) of the bird: cf. the form hoopoop.]
A bird of the family Upupidæ, esp. the typical Upupa epops, a south European species, which occasionally visits England, conspicuous by its variegated plumage and its large erectile crest; formerly called hoop (n.3).
1668Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 92 Upupa,..vernaculè an Hoopoop. 1675Ray Dict. Trilingue 27 This bird [the lapwing] by a great mistake hath been generally taken to be the upupa of the Antients, which is now by all acknowledged to be the Hoopo. 1677[see hooping ppl. a.2]. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 254/2 A Upupa..is in our country speech called a Whoophoo, or Whopee, or Hoopoe, and Howpe. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 222 Quirus, is a juggling Stone, found in the Nest of the Hoopoop. 1789G. White Selborne ii. 31 The most unusual birds I ever observed in these parts were a pair of hoopoes. 1852W. Smith Smaller Class. Dict. (1874) 417 Procne, accordingly, became a nightingale..Tereus a hoopoo. 1895Daily News 5 Oct. 6/2, I saw to-day a pair of hoopoes on the road..I could see the beautiful orange crest of the male, with its black tip going up and down as he walked, and after he flew into the tree he continued his cry of ‘uup, uup’. |