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单词 noop
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Brit. /nuːp/, U.S. /nup/, Scottish English /nup/
Forms: 1800s knoop, 1800s knoup, 1800s nupe, 1800s– noop, 1900s– noup, 1900s– nowp.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: knop n.1
Etymology: Probably originally a variant of knop n.1 (compare the Middle English form knope at that entry; perhaps compare also noop n.2). Compare noup n.Perhaps compare Norwegian knop knot, (regional) knuckle, short bone. It is uncertain whether the same word is shown by the second element of hatchnoup n. at hatch n.1 Compounds.
Scottish. Now rare.
1. gen. A projection or protuberance.
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1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Knoop, a protuberance of any kind... A bit of wood projecting from a wall, on which any thing is hung.
1848 J. Thomson Feast of Literary Crumbs 35 Say, does it hang down by his side, Or on his sturdie hurdie ride, On the tapmost knoup o't?
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. Noop, a knob, as on furniture, etc.
1934 Punch 14 Nov. 543/2 D'ye mind the lowp I gied when your dam' metal nowp [of a hot water bottle] Burn't sair my fit?
2. The point of the elbow. Sc. National Dict. at Noup n. records this sense as still in use in Selkirkshire in 1950.With quot. 1982 cf. etymological note at murgeon v.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > arm > [noun] > elbow
elbowc1000
cubit1544
ply1575
knop1652
ancon1706
noop1818
capitellum1825
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 103 A'body has a conscience... I think mine's as weel out o' the gate as maist folks' are; and yet its just like the noop of my elbow, it whiles gets a bit dirl on a corner.
1835 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 281 She wash'd her arms to the elbow noops.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. Noop, the point of the elbow.
1982 Guardian 19 Jan. 10/8 Reports that Mr Jenkins had been overheard expressing the hope that ‘the de'il might nirl the noops’ of those guilty of such miscalling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

noopn.2

Brit. /nuːp/, U.S. /nup/, Scottish English /nup/
Forms: 1700s– knupe, 1800s knope, 1800s– knoop, 1800s– noop, 1800s– nup, 1800s– nupe.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: knop n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately < a variant of knop n.1 (compare the Middle English form knope at that entry; compare also noop n.1). Compare slightly earlier nub-berry n., and perhaps also knotberry n. (see form knoutberry at that entry). Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. compares Norwegian regional njupa, nupe rose-hip, but this seems too remote semantically.
English regional (northern) and Scottish.
The fruit of the cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus; (also) the plant itself. Frequently in plural. Also more fully noop-berry.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries
blueberry1594
hedge-berry1607
elderberry1625
huckleberry1670
bearberry1677
cloudberry1743
baked apple1750
pembina1760
service1785
honeyberry1787
nub-berry1794
bluet1812
noop1817
squawberry1829
quandong1836
miro1838
strawberry guava1901
squash-berry1935
tayberry1977
tummelberry1984
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > cloudberry or salmon berry bush
cloudberry1597
knotberry1633
mountain bramble1728
baked apple1750
averin1768
noop1817
Scotch cap1828
salmon berry1844
queen's berry1854
1817 R. Wharton Cheviot 3 The little hills the humble knupes produce.
1843 M. A. Richardson Local Historian's Table Bk. (new ed.) Legendary Div. I. 403 (Cloudberry)—whose orange fruit is locally called ‘noops’.
1859 W. White Northumberland & Border 355 The shepherds call them knout, or knope-berries.
1906 J. A. Harvie-Brown Fauna of Tay Basin p. xxxii The Avern is usually found in Scotland in greatest quantities above the 2600-feet levels... Avern or cloudberry of Scotland and England (Rubus chamaemorus)..‘Knoop’—local in north of Scotland.
1952 Scotsman 6 Sept. 4/7 His quest for information regarding the cloudberry, or, as it is known in Sutherland and Caithness, the ‘noop’.
1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 452/2 Cloudberry is..noop (Borders) or knoutberry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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