| 释义 |
cloop, n.|kluːp|
[Imitative.]
The sound made by drawing a cork from a bottle, or any similar sound. So cloop v. intr., to make this sound.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxiv, I heard a sort of cloop, by which well-known sound I was aware that somebody was opening a bottle of wine. 1854― Newcomes I. 120 He can imitate any..cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle and guggling of wine into the decanter. 1872M. E. Braddon To Bitter End xxxvii. 291 The clatter of her pattens, the cloop of her pails. Ibid. v. 39 A basket, from which there came..a cool clooping noise, suggestive of refreshing drinks. |