cloopn.
/kluːp/ The sound made by drawing a cork from a bottle, or any similar sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun] > popping sound
pop1591
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popping1652
plunk1822
pop-out1836
cloop1848
bop1937
1848 W. M. Thackeray 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 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 120 He can imitate any..cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle and guggling of wine into the decanter.
1872 M. E. Braddon To Bitter End xxxvii. 291 The clatter of her pattens, the cloop of her pails.
Derivatives
cloop v. (intransitive) to make this sound.
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1872 M. E. Braddon To Bitter End v. 39 A basket, from which there came..a cool clooping noise, suggestive of refreshing drinks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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