scroopn.¹

/skruːp/

Etymology: Echoic; compare scroop v.

a. A harsh, strident, or scraping noise.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [noun] > scratching or scraping

scraping1561

scrabbling1582

screed?a1669

scratching1776

scratch1787

scritch-scratch1842

scrooping1849

scroopa1859

scrattling1861

scritch-scratching1881

scrape1886

scritch1953

a1859 Househ. Words XXX. 139 This man could mimic every word and scroop and shout that might be supposed proper to such a scene [the pulling of teeth].

1868 M. E. Braddon Trail Serpent vi. iv The door opened with a scroop.

1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 Nov. 734/2 There is always a scroop of chairs moving on the stone floor.

b. The rustling sound and crisp feel associated especially with silk but capable of being imparted also to other fabrics by special treatment. Also attributive.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [noun] > sound and feel of

scroop1892

1892 G. H. Hurst Silk Dyeing i. 9 Dilute mineral acids have no appreciable action on silk, but they have the property of imparting to it a peculiar ‘scroop’ or crackle.

1916 E. Knecht et al. Man. Dyeing iv. 64 The silk acquires a peculiar feel, emitting when compressed in bulk a peculiar crackling sound (scroop silk; Fr. craquant)... The scroop feel produced by acetic acid disappears after a time.

1921 C. Salter tr. Ganswindt Dyeing Silk 32 The so-called ‘scroop’ of silk..is only observed in scoured silk that has been treated with weak acids.

1954 Economist 24 Apr. 291/1 Non-cellulose synthetics may be too hot in summer..and..it is difficult to give them such qualities as ‘scroop’, the trade name for the rustle that women like.

1961 H. Blackshaw & R. Brightman Dict. Dyeing 154 Scroop... This property can be imparted to textile materials other than silk by, for example, soap in conjunction with an organic acid.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 208/2 Scroop..is not a natural property of the fibre [sc. silk] but is developed by processing treatments, and does not indicate quality.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

scroopn.²

rare.

? Perhaps a mistake for scruff n.²

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > neck > [noun] > back of neck

napea1325

hattrelc1330

nolla1382

skull1382

polla1398

nape of the neck (also head)1440

noddle1547

niddick1558

nuke1562

nuque1578

nub1673

nod1695

cuff of the neck1740

nucha1768

scuff1787

scruff1790

scroop1850

kitchen1964

1850 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. iii. 43 I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dog-kennel.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

scroopv.

/skruːp/

Etymology: Echoic. Compare skruke, ‘the noise made by a chair being drawn along a brick floor’ (H. Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norfolk, 1893).

intransitive. To make a strident, grating, or scraping sound; to grate, creak, squeak.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > harsh or discordant [verb (intransitive)] > scratch or scrape

scratch1671

scrape1774

scroop1787

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (at cited word) The jack scroops.

1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 21 Oct. 197 It is boundless joy to me, to contemplate this infernal system [of paper-money] in its hour of wreck: swag here: crack there: scroop this way: souse that way.

1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xxxiv. 401 She heard the shutters of the dairy scroop on their hinges.

1886 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 110 The iron gate scrooped on its hinges.

Derivatives

ˈscrooping n.

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