whoopingn.

Brit.

/ˈwuːpɪŋ/,

/ˈhuːpɪŋ/,

/ˈwʊpɪŋ/,

/ˈhʊpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)wupɪŋ/,

/ˈhupɪŋ/,

/ˈ(h)wʊpɪŋ/,

/ˈhʊpɪŋ/

Forms:

α. 1500s hoopyng, 1500s hoopynge, 1600s houping, 1600s– hooping.

β. 1500s– whooping.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: whoop v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < whoop v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The (repeated) utterance of the exclamation ‘whoop’, as in the calling of fox-hunters, the making of a war cry, or (now esp.) excited or enthusiastic shouting, etc.; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > hooting or whooping sound > action of making

whooping1557

pant-hooting1971

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > whoop or hoot

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whooping1557

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α.

1557 F. Seager Schoole of Vertue in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 341 Suche foolyshe toyes As commonly are vsed In these dayes of boyes. As hoopynge and halowynge as in huntynge the foxe.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. x. 255 Without any houping, singing, and joyous vaunting of himselfe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 189 O wonderfull..and most wonderfull wonderfull, and yet againe wonderful, and after that out of all hooping.

1759 Scots Mag. July 375/2 The men landed, and heard hooping and firing on both sides of the river.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iii. 72 A shrilly sound of female exclamation mixed with the screams of children, the hooping of boys, and the clapping of hands.

1893 D. F. Campbell & J. Stebbing tr. A. Thiers Hist. Consulate & Empire of France V. xxix. 185 The soldiers..made the mountains ring with their wild hooping and hallooing.

1975 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 9 May 1/4 The stillness of dusk was shattered by the squalling and hooping of a couple of Middlesboro hawgers who had been coerced into taking their wives on the tourney trail.

β. 1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. iii. f. 80^v They daunced such a Morresse about hir with Glasses, Fire, Water, and sounding of Belles, beating on the bourdes, showting, and whooping, that it would haue made the wheele of a Myll deafe it was so terrible.1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 53 They were wont..to keep a whooping and halowing,..and blowing of horns, and tingling of bels.1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 139 The clattering of the Oars, the whooping of the Sea-men.1758 P. Williamson French & Indian Cruelty Exemplified (ed. 3) 65 About three in the morning, having been guided by the whooping of the Indian warriors, at a dance in the town, they reached the river.1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 47 The whooping of boys, the barking of dogs.1927 H. Williamson Tarka the Otter ii. 35 Then..came the prolonged thin rattle of the horn, and the triumphant whooping of whips and huntsman.2014 Express (Nexis) 19 Mar. 31 I'm usually a sober sitter-out of end-of-show ovations but on this occasion I not only jumped up, I joined in the whooping.

2. In early use: the characteristic hooting of some species of owl. Later also: the calling of any of various animals or birds, esp. of some species of swan, crane, or gibbon.

ΚΠ

?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. I1 With guilty conscience..That oft they start at whooping of an owle.

1694 J. Smith Horolog. Disquis. 84 The much hooping of Owls, after Sun-set, in the Summer-time, and in the Night also, foreshews a fair Day to follow.

1793 Monthly Rev. Jan. 19 [I was] occasionally awakened by the whooping of owls, screaming of bitterns, or the wood-rats running amongst the leaves.

1806 P. Wakefield Excurs. N. Amer. xiv. 92 The whip-poor-will lulling us..to sleep; assisted by the lowing of distant herds of cattle, or the shrill whooping of the crane.

1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 54 The whoopings of the owl.

1845 Lit. Gaz. 1 Nov. 715/1 In the middle of our sport, we heard the distant hooping of swans.

1938 A. W. Derleth Wind over Wisconsin iii. 115 The dark nights rang with the incessant cries of whippoorwills, the whooping of cranes and owls.

2005 Times of India (Mumbai) 5 Apr. 14/2 The vibrating call of a laughing thrush, the whooping of Hoolock gibbons,..and the low guttural warning of a tiger.

3. Medicine. Noisy gasping inhalation that typically follows bouts of coughing in the disease whooping cough.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > whooping cough > whoop

whooping1669

whoop1779

1669 W. Walwyn Physick for Families 67 And a very young Child of theirs, taken with a most tearing violent hooping Cough, by help of Succus vitæ mixt with a third part of Refugium, soon quitted the hooping.

1773 W. Butter Treat. Kinkcough v. 76 Her cough was..dry, in the night. She was never hot, but during the fits of hooping.

1857 Monthly Homœopathic Rev. 1 33 This cough..comes on in violent fits, with feelings of suffocation, resembling those of hooping cough, but which are not followed by hooping or vomiting of mucus, as in that disease.

1906 G. P. Paul Nursing Acute Infectious Fevers xiii. 106 During the paroxysmal stage vomiting may occur after each fit of whooping.

2004 Pediatric Infectious Dis. Jrnl. 23 211 The clinical spectrum of pertussis ranges from mild cough illnesses of short duration to typical illness with paroxysmal cough, whooping and posttussive vomiting.

4. The whistling or low wailing sound made by high winds, a missile passing through the air, etc.; (also) the hooting or wailing of a siren, steam, whistle, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > rushing sound

rushinga1398

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whither?a1505

whithering1787

rushingness1833

whoop1840

whoo1842

whooping1884

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whoof1898

1884 G. Streyke Sea, River, & Creek 124 Here the splashing of the rain and the fierce whooping of the wind were more apparent than down below.

1902 Chambers's Jrnl. 20 Sept. 671/1 Among the necessary noises we may..count the whooping of sirens on board the steamers, and the booming of foghorns.

1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War ii. 13 The howling and whooping of shells suddenly began, and a small brick outbuilding..began to jump away in explosions of dusty yellow smoke.

2009 J. Darrin Screenshot xi. 87 Everyone..staring at the monitors, their speakers quieter without the whooping of helicopter blades and the crack of gunshots.

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whoopingadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈwuːpɪŋ/,

/ˈhuːpɪŋ/,

/ˈhwuːpɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈwupɪŋ/,

/ˈhupɪŋ/,

/ˈhwupɪŋ/

Forms:

α. 1600s– whooping.

β. 1600s– hooping.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: whoop v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < whoop v. + -ing suffix².

A. adj.

a. Of the nature or having the quality of a whoop; characterized by whooping.In quot. ?1616 at α. in yawling-whooping; cf. yawling n. and adj. at yawl v.¹ Derivatives.Frequently in whooping cough n. (cf. sense A. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [adjective] > whoop or hoot

whooping?1616

hooting1697

α.

?1616 W. Goddard Morrall Satire in Satirycall Dialogue sig. F2 This Owle..is a vildlie living wicked fowle..; the best and greatst she frights Breaking our quiet sleepe with the fell noyse Of manlike lure and yauling-whooping voice.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §1. 375 Some have supposed them [sc. the Mermaids and Men-fish] to be devils or spirits, in regard of their whooping noise that they make.

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 293 Suspicion, that he was sent to shoot me..as soon as he heard the whooping death-signal.

1878 Zoologist May 175 Wild Swans did not come under my observation this winter, nor did I notice their whooping call.

1963 Daily Mail 12 Dec. 1/8 To the whooping cheers of thousands of Africans, 68 years of British rule ended at midnight.

2007 A. Young Night Creatures i. 4 The South American howler monkey makes a loud whooping sound to keep other monkeys away.

β. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. 283 For it [sc. a bittern] flies in the night.., and hath such a kind of hooping cry as they talk of.1746 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd II. Aug. xiv. 100 The Owl..makes a great hooping Noise, or Cry, many times in the Night.1845 Peter Parley's Ann. 36 [The bullfinch] has a wild hooping note.1873 W. Bottrell Trad. & Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall 2nd Ser. 247 By night a dull light was mostly seen amidst the vapour..; at the same time hooping sounds were heard proceeding therefrom.

b. spec. With reference to the noisy, gasping intake of breath after a coughing fit that is characteristic of whooping cough.

ΚΠ

1668–70 J. Locke & T. Sydenham Tussis in Bull. Hist. Med. (1959) 33 368 The patient..is taken with a long continued act of coughing which rises higher and higher both in the straining and hooping noise untill at length the child grows black.

1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 78 An hideous whooping noise, like that of a child in a chin-cough.

1863 Amer. Med. Times 18 July 22/2 A profound sonorous, loud, hooping inspiration, which is followed by the expectoration of a quantity of stringy mucus.

1965 J. E. Jennings & M. H. Smith South 268 The cough is often followed by a ‘whooping’ gasp for breath.

2012 N. Rosovsky In Land of Israel iii. 225 Spasms of dry, convulsive coughs shook my body, followed by ‘whooping’ intakes of air that never seemed to fill the lungs.

2. That whoops; that makes the sound or utters the exclamation represented by ‘whoop’.For use as the first element in the names of animals and (esp.) birds, see Compounds.

ΚΠ

1641 R. Heyrick 3 Serm. i. 5 Quiet fishermen, not hollowing hunters, and whooping Faulkoners.

1654 Last Will & Test. T. Gataker 3 Item, I give and bequeath unto Edmund Calamy the hooping Preacher of Aldermanbury, my exquisite art of lying.

a1717 W. Diaper Lincolnshire (1720) 5 The curs'd Night Raven, and the hooping Owl, Disturb our Rest, and seare the guilty Soul.

1841 H. W. Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus in Boston Bk. (ed. 3) 76 A whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck.

1895 J. Prior Renie xix A band of whistling, whooping lads playing at stalky.

1934 Philadelphia Inquirer 18 Sept. 22/4 The bass foghorns of the passenger liners and the whooping sirens of the Navy destroyers.

2018 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 4 Apr. (Features section) 16 The A Team race kicked things off, with almost 160 runners dashing past whooping crowds.

3. colloquial (originally U.S.). Great, huge; powerful, impressive. Also occasionally as an intensifier, following big.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great

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whisking1673

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nation1765

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smacking1888

God almighty1913

Christ almighty1961

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [adjective] > uproar or tumult

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clamouring1635

panic1642

pandemoniana1788

rackety1787

fast and furious1790

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whooping1866

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely

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galactically1968

1866 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 30 July (1917) I. v. 115 The first few days we came at a whooping gait.

1887 Daily Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, S. Dakota) 10 June [They] decided to end up with a big whooping picnic of the first water.

1953 Philadelphia Inquirer 11 Aug. 17/5 Each year, attendance started off at a whooping rate, dropped gradually and became always extinct toward summer's end.

1986 E. K. Stirling Midnight Obsession 117 ‘Your posters are out there...’ ‘Sure, in the record stores and the jeans stores for all the teenyboppers. Big whoopin' deal.’

2004 Times of India 18 May (Personal section) 3/3 The damage to the oil marketing companies..is estimated to be a whooping sum of around Rs.2,000 crores.

B. adv.

1. colloquial (chiefly U.S. in later use). In a furious, passionate, or vehement manner; chiefly in whooping mad.

ΚΠ

1839 John Bull 22 Sept. 456/1 The recent appointment of Catholics to offices of high trust..in order to invigorate the followers of Mr. O'Connell.., has set the Priests whooping-mad.

1876 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 29 July 5/2 The Independents..left here whooping mad because only two of their candidates..were indorsed.

1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands vii. 88 Odgson..was then lyin' in ther City cells, whoopin' delirious.

1943 Sunday News & Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) 4 July 8/2 We get whooping angry at the contemptible home-curs who do nothing but abuse the administration and decry all that is done to win the war.

2020 @officerpatriot 26 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Feb. 2021) 90% sure this is 100% bait but I'm whooping mad about it anyway.

2. colloquial (originally U.S.). As an intensifier modifying an adjective, as big, good, great, etc.: remarkably, extremely.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly

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1874 Macon (Georgia) Tel. & Messenger 18 Dec. He saw one of his companions shoot daylight through the head of a whooping big otter.

1907 Scribner's Mag. July 30/1 Everybody was proud of him. He was just a miracle, you see. A whooping good fellow.

1969 J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie (1970) xiii. 94 They unstrap me and shoot two whooping great penicillin injections into my backside.

2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 Mar. 11 We have a whooping big truck which we will take to Manly Corso.

Compounds

† whooping bird n. Obsolete the hoopoe, Upupa epops.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > upupa epops (hoopoe)

hoop1481

upupa1601

whooping bird1607

hoopoe1668

thuet1688

whoopcat1694

whoophooper1694

1607 J. Norden in R. R. Tighe & J. E. Davis Annals Windsor (1858) II. i. 30 The Hooping bride, vulgarlie held ominous, frequenteth this Parke muche.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire vii. 177 The Upupa, the Hoopoe, or Hooping-bird; whereof I saw one alive on Otmoor.

1774 C. Smith Anc. & Pres. State County & City of Waterford (ed. 2) xviii. 336 Upupa. The Whoop or Whooping bird.

whooping crane n. a large crane of marshes and wetlands in North America, Grus americana, the adult of which has largely white plumage, with a red crown and black wing tips, and a loud bugle-like call; cf. whooper n. 1c.In early use, the brown juvenile was sometimes confused with the sandhill crane, Antigone canadensis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > member of genus Grus > grus americana (whooping crane)

whooping crane1731

savannah crane?a1775

1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. iv. Pl. 75 The hooping Crane is about the Size of the common Crane.

?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 148/1 The Sonorrous Stork & Whooping Crains proclaim the near approaches of the Summers heats.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 137 The brown crane and hooping crane are both edible species.

1879 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box 108 Whooping-cranes..in little flocks, dotted the grassy prairies.

1976 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 May 10/6 A scraggly-looking whooping crane chick, hatched this week at the government wildlife centre here.

2014 @AngelaCarter19 12 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 17 July 2020) Got the grill going! Fire starting to burn, listening to the hooping cranes flying over.

whooping owl n. an owl with a hooting rather than a wailing or screeching call; cf. hoot owl n. at hoot n.¹ 4.In later use chiefly North American.Cf. simple descriptive use in quot. a1717 at sense A. 2.

ΚΠ

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 70 Ulula,..the whooping Owl, or Gilhooter.

1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 261 The tree-frogs, whipperwills, and hooping-owls, serenade the inhabitants every night with music.

1911 L. P. Elliott Early Hist. Nashville 165 One evening about dusk he heard a big whooping-owl.

1972 B. Jones & B. L. Hawes Step it Down (1987) 194 We call them whooping owls because they whoops.

whooping swan n. the whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus; = whooper n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus cygnus (whooper)

elk1552

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trumpeter swan1842

trumpeter1891

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Introd. p. xxiii The singular flexure in the windpipe of the Hooping Swan and Crane.

1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 742/2 Those who assert that it [sc. the white (mute) swan] has been bred out of the whooping swan, maintain..that one species of animal may, in a state of nature, and without any interference of art, originate another and different species.

1926 Auk 43 224 Three species of Swan occur in Denmark, of which Bewick's and the Whooping Swan are regular winter residents and the Mute Swan a breeding as well as a winter bird.

2019 Daily Mirror (N. Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 29 Nov. 20 Mr Murphy said the road would cut through the feeding fields of wintering whooping swans and destroy the Lough Beg wetland.

† whooping turtle n. (in form hooping turtle) Obsolete rare the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta.The reason for the name is unclear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Cheloniidae > member of genus Eretmochelys (hawk's-bill)

hawk's-bill turtle1657

whooping turtle1712

hawkbilla1757

tortoiseshell turtle1886

1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 276 The very large hooping or logger-head Turtle..(as they are call'd) found in Brazil in great plenty.

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单词	whooping
释义	whoopingn. Brit. /ˈwuːpɪŋ/, /ˈhuːpɪŋ/, /ˈwʊpɪŋ/, /ˈhʊpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wupɪŋ/, /ˈhupɪŋ/, /ˈ(h)wʊpɪŋ/, /ˈhʊpɪŋ/ Forms: α. 1500s hoopyng, 1500s hoopynge, 1600s houping, 1600s– hooping. β. 1500s– whooping. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: whoop v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < whoop v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The (repeated) utterance of the exclamation ‘whoop’, as in the calling of fox-hunters, the making of a war cry, or (now esp.) excited or enthusiastic shouting, etc.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > hooting or whooping sound > action of making whooping1557 pant-hooting1971 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > whoop or hoot whoopc1450 whooping1557 whooing1827 α. 1557 F. Seager Schoole of Vertue in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 341 Suche foolyshe toyes As commonly are vsed In these dayes of boyes. As hoopynge and halowynge as in huntynge the foxe. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. x. 255 Without any houping, singing, and joyous vaunting of himselfe. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 189 O wonderfull..and most wonderfull wonderfull, and yet againe wonderful, and after that out of all hooping. 1759 Scots Mag. July 375/2 The men landed, and heard hooping and firing on both sides of the river. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iii. 72 A shrilly sound of female exclamation mixed with the screams of children, the hooping of boys, and the clapping of hands. 1893 D. F. Campbell & J. Stebbing tr. A. Thiers Hist. Consulate & Empire of France V. xxix. 185 The soldiers..made the mountains ring with their wild hooping and hallooing. 1975 Middlesboro (Kentucky) Daily News 9 May 1/4 The stillness of dusk was shattered by the squalling and hooping of a couple of Middlesboro hawgers who had been coerced into taking their wives on the tourney trail. β. 1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. iii. f. 80^v They daunced such a Morresse about hir with Glasses, Fire, Water, and sounding of Belles, beating on the bourdes, showting, and whooping, that it would haue made the wheele of a Myll deafe it was so terrible.1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 53 They were wont..to keep a whooping and halowing,..and blowing of horns, and tingling of bels.1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 139 The clattering of the Oars, the whooping of the Sea-men.1758 P. Williamson French & Indian Cruelty Exemplified (ed. 3) 65 About three in the morning, having been guided by the whooping of the Indian warriors, at a dance in the town, they reached the river.1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. i. 47 The whooping of boys, the barking of dogs.1927 H. Williamson Tarka the Otter ii. 35 Then..came the prolonged thin rattle of the horn, and the triumphant whooping of whips and huntsman.2014 Express (Nexis) 19 Mar. 31 I'm usually a sober sitter-out of end-of-show ovations but on this occasion I not only jumped up, I joined in the whooping. 2. In early use: the characteristic hooting of some species of owl. Later also: the calling of any of various animals or birds, esp. of some species of swan, crane, or gibbon. ΚΠ ?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. I1 With guilty conscience..That oft they start at whooping of an owle. 1694 J. Smith Horolog. Disquis. 84 The much hooping of Owls, after Sun-set, in the Summer-time, and in the Night also, foreshews a fair Day to follow. 1793 Monthly Rev. Jan. 19 [I was] occasionally awakened by the whooping of owls, screaming of bitterns, or the wood-rats running amongst the leaves. 1806 P. Wakefield Excurs. N. Amer. xiv. 92 The whip-poor-will lulling us..to sleep; assisted by the lowing of distant herds of cattle, or the shrill whooping of the crane. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 54 The whoopings of the owl. 1845 Lit. Gaz. 1 Nov. 715/1 In the middle of our sport, we heard the distant hooping of swans. 1938 A. W. Derleth Wind over Wisconsin iii. 115 The dark nights rang with the incessant cries of whippoorwills, the whooping of cranes and owls. 2005 Times of India (Mumbai) 5 Apr. 14/2 The vibrating call of a laughing thrush, the whooping of Hoolock gibbons,..and the low guttural warning of a tiger. 3. Medicine. Noisy gasping inhalation that typically follows bouts of coughing in the disease whooping cough. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > whooping cough > whoop whooping1669 whoop1779 1669 W. Walwyn Physick for Families 67 And a very young Child of theirs, taken with a most tearing violent hooping Cough, by help of Succus vitæ mixt with a third part of Refugium, soon quitted the hooping. 1773 W. Butter Treat. Kinkcough v. 76 Her cough was..dry, in the night. She was never hot, but during the fits of hooping. 1857 Monthly Homœopathic Rev. 1 33 This cough..comes on in violent fits, with feelings of suffocation, resembling those of hooping cough, but which are not followed by hooping or vomiting of mucus, as in that disease. 1906 G. P. Paul Nursing Acute Infectious Fevers xiii. 106 During the paroxysmal stage vomiting may occur after each fit of whooping. 2004 Pediatric Infectious Dis. Jrnl. 23 211 The clinical spectrum of pertussis ranges from mild cough illnesses of short duration to typical illness with paroxysmal cough, whooping and posttussive vomiting. 4. The whistling or low wailing sound made by high winds, a missile passing through the air, etc.; (also) the hooting or wailing of a siren, steam, whistle, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > rushing sound rushinga1398 rusha1500 whither?a1505 whithering1787 rushingness1833 whoop1840 whoo1842 whooping1884 whooing1890 whoof1898 1884 G. Streyke Sea, River, & Creek 124 Here the splashing of the rain and the fierce whooping of the wind were more apparent than down below. 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. 20 Sept. 671/1 Among the necessary noises we may..count the whooping of sirens on board the steamers, and the booming of foghorns. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War ii. 13 The howling and whooping of shells suddenly began, and a small brick outbuilding..began to jump away in explosions of dusty yellow smoke. 2009 J. Darrin Screenshot xi. 87 Everyone..staring at the monitors, their speakers quieter without the whooping of helicopter blades and the crack of gunshots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). whoopingadj.adv. Brit. /ˈwuːpɪŋ/, /ˈhuːpɪŋ/, /ˈhwuːpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwupɪŋ/, /ˈhupɪŋ/, /ˈhwupɪŋ/ Forms: α. 1600s– whooping. β. 1600s– hooping. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: whoop v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < whoop v. + -ing suffix². A. adj. 1. a. Of the nature or having the quality of a whoop; characterized by whooping.In quot. ?1616 at α. in yawling-whooping; cf. yawling n. and adj. at yawl v.¹ Derivatives.Frequently in whooping cough n. (cf. sense A. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [adjective] > whoop or hoot whooping?1616 hooting1697 α. ?1616 W. Goddard Morrall Satire in Satirycall Dialogue sig. F2 This Owle..is a vildlie living wicked fowle..; the best and greatst she frights Breaking our quiet sleepe with the fell noyse Of manlike lure and yauling-whooping voice. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §1. 375 Some have supposed them [sc. the Mermaids and Men-fish] to be devils or spirits, in regard of their whooping noise that they make. 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 293 Suspicion, that he was sent to shoot me..as soon as he heard the whooping death-signal. 1878 Zoologist May 175 Wild Swans did not come under my observation this winter, nor did I notice their whooping call. 1963 Daily Mail 12 Dec. 1/8 To the whooping cheers of thousands of Africans, 68 years of British rule ended at midnight. 2007 A. Young Night Creatures i. 4 The South American howler monkey makes a loud whooping sound to keep other monkeys away. β. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. iii. 283 For it [sc. a bittern] flies in the night.., and hath such a kind of hooping cry as they talk of.1746 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd II. Aug. xiv. 100 The Owl..makes a great hooping Noise, or Cry, many times in the Night.1845 Peter Parley's Ann. 36 [The bullfinch] has a wild hooping note.1873 W. Bottrell Trad. & Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall 2nd Ser. 247 By night a dull light was mostly seen amidst the vapour..; at the same time hooping sounds were heard proceeding therefrom. b. spec. With reference to the noisy, gasping intake of breath after a coughing fit that is characteristic of whooping cough. ΚΠ 1668–70 J. Locke & T. Sydenham Tussis in Bull. Hist. Med. (1959) 33 368 The patient..is taken with a long continued act of coughing which rises higher and higher both in the straining and hooping noise untill at length the child grows black. 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 78 An hideous whooping noise, like that of a child in a chin-cough. 1863 Amer. Med. Times 18 July 22/2 A profound sonorous, loud, hooping inspiration, which is followed by the expectoration of a quantity of stringy mucus. 1965 J. E. Jennings & M. H. Smith South 268 The cough is often followed by a ‘whooping’ gasp for breath. 2012 N. Rosovsky In Land of Israel iii. 225 Spasms of dry, convulsive coughs shook my body, followed by ‘whooping’ intakes of air that never seemed to fill the lungs. 2. That whoops; that makes the sound or utters the exclamation represented by ‘whoop’.For use as the first element in the names of animals and (esp.) birds, see Compounds. ΚΠ 1641 R. Heyrick 3 Serm. i. 5 Quiet fishermen, not hollowing hunters, and whooping Faulkoners. 1654 Last Will & Test. T. Gataker 3 Item, I give and bequeath unto Edmund Calamy the hooping Preacher of Aldermanbury, my exquisite art of lying. a1717 W. Diaper Lincolnshire (1720) 5 The curs'd Night Raven, and the hooping Owl, Disturb our Rest, and seare the guilty Soul. 1841 H. W. Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus in Boston Bk. (ed. 3) 76 A whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. 1895 J. Prior Renie xix A band of whistling, whooping lads playing at stalky. 1934 Philadelphia Inquirer 18 Sept. 22/4 The bass foghorns of the passenger liners and the whooping sirens of the Navy destroyers. 2018 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 4 Apr. (Features section) 16 The A Team race kicked things off, with almost 160 runners dashing past whooping crowds. 3. colloquial (originally U.S.). Great, huge; powerful, impressive. Also occasionally as an intensifier, following big. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great swappingc1440 bumping1566 thumping1576 swingeinga1592 knocking1598 gigantical1604 gigantine1605 gigantean1611 gigantal?1614 thundering1618 whoppinga1625 humming1654 rapping1657 whisking1673 threshing1707 sousing1735 nation1765 heroic1785 runaway1790 spanking1791 gigantic1797 whacking1797 cracking1834 ringing1834 bouncing1842 walloping1847 stavingc1850 banging1864 howling1865 whooping1866 smacking1888 God almighty1913 Christ almighty1961 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [adjective] > uproar or tumult obstreperousc1600 clamouring1635 panic1642 pandemoniana1788 rackety1787 fast and furious1790 uproarious1818 racketing1843 pandemoniacal1862 whooping1866 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely hugelyc1380 huge1508 enormly1538 monstruously?1548 massively1550 monstrously1602 a worlda1616 hugeouslya1643 immensely1654 vastly1664 swingingly1668 hugeous1673 gigantically1678 vast1688 swingeing1690 thumpingly1693 enormously1695 pancratically1727 immense1754 colossally1809 whooping1866 monumentally1877 pyramidically1886 pyramidally1891 galactically1968 1866 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 30 July (1917) I. v. 115 The first few days we came at a whooping gait. 1887 Daily Argus-Leader (Sioux Falls, S. Dakota) 10 June [They] decided to end up with a big whooping picnic of the first water. 1953 Philadelphia Inquirer 11 Aug. 17/5 Each year, attendance started off at a whooping rate, dropped gradually and became always extinct toward summer's end. 1986 E. K. Stirling Midnight Obsession 117 ‘Your posters are out there...’ ‘Sure, in the record stores and the jeans stores for all the teenyboppers. Big whoopin' deal.’ 2004 Times of India 18 May (Personal section) 3/3 The damage to the oil marketing companies..is estimated to be a whooping sum of around Rs.2,000 crores. B. adv. 1. colloquial (chiefly U.S. in later use). In a furious, passionate, or vehement manner; chiefly in whooping mad. ΚΠ 1839 John Bull 22 Sept. 456/1 The recent appointment of Catholics to offices of high trust..in order to invigorate the followers of Mr. O'Connell.., has set the Priests whooping-mad. 1876 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 29 July 5/2 The Independents..left here whooping mad because only two of their candidates..were indorsed. 1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands vii. 88 Odgson..was then lyin' in ther City cells, whoopin' delirious. 1943 Sunday News & Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) 4 July 8/2 We get whooping angry at the contemptible home-curs who do nothing but abuse the administration and decry all that is done to win the war. 2020 @officerpatriot 26 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 24 Feb. 2021) 90% sure this is 100% bait but I'm whooping mad about it anyway. 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). As an intensifier modifying an adjective, as big, good, great, etc.: remarkably, extremely. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1874 Macon (Georgia) Tel. & Messenger 18 Dec. He saw one of his companions shoot daylight through the head of a whooping big otter. 1907 Scribner's Mag. July 30/1 Everybody was proud of him. He was just a miracle, you see. A whooping good fellow. 1969 J. Fabian & J. Byrne Groupie (1970) xiii. 94 They unstrap me and shoot two whooping great penicillin injections into my backside. 2012 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 Mar. 11 We have a whooping big truck which we will take to Manly Corso. Compounds † whooping bird n. Obsolete the hoopoe, Upupa epops. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Coraciiformes (kingfisher, etc.) > [noun] > upupa epops (hoopoe) hoop1481 upupa1601 whooping bird1607 hoopoe1668 thuet1688 whoopcat1694 whoophooper1694 1607 J. Norden in R. R. Tighe & J. E. Davis Annals Windsor (1858) II. i. 30 The Hooping bride, vulgarlie held ominous, frequenteth this Parke muche. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire vii. 177 The Upupa, the Hoopoe, or Hooping-bird; whereof I saw one alive on Otmoor. 1774 C. Smith Anc. & Pres. State County & City of Waterford (ed. 2) xviii. 336 Upupa. The Whoop or Whooping bird. whooping crane n. a large crane of marshes and wetlands in North America, Grus americana, the adult of which has largely white plumage, with a red crown and black wing tips, and a loud bugle-like call; cf. whooper n. 1c.In early use, the brown juvenile was sometimes confused with the sandhill crane, Antigone canadensis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Gruidae (cranes) > member of genus Grus > grus americana (whooping crane) whooping crane1731 savannah crane?a1775 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. iv. Pl. 75 The hooping Crane is about the Size of the common Crane. ?a1775 W. Bartram Trav. Georgia & Florida in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1943) 33 148/1 The Sonorrous Stork & Whooping Crains proclaim the near approaches of the Summers heats. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 137 The brown crane and hooping crane are both edible species. 1879 N. H. Bishop Four Months in Sneak-box 108 Whooping-cranes..in little flocks, dotted the grassy prairies. 1976 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 May 10/6 A scraggly-looking whooping crane chick, hatched this week at the government wildlife centre here. 2014 @AngelaCarter19 12 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 17 July 2020) Got the grill going! Fire starting to burn, listening to the hooping cranes flying over. whooping owl n. an owl with a hooting rather than a wailing or screeching call; cf. hoot owl n. at hoot n.¹ 4.In later use chiefly North American.Cf. simple descriptive use in quot. a1717 at sense A. 2. ΚΠ 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 70 Ulula,..the whooping Owl, or Gilhooter. 1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 261 The tree-frogs, whipperwills, and hooping-owls, serenade the inhabitants every night with music. 1911 L. P. Elliott Early Hist. Nashville 165 One evening about dusk he heard a big whooping-owl. 1972 B. Jones & B. L. Hawes Step it Down (1987) 194 We call them whooping owls because they whoops. whooping swan n. the whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus; = whooper n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus cygnus (whooper) elk1552 whooper1553 whistling swan1785 whooping swan1802 trumpeter swan1842 trumpeter1891 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Introd. p. xxiii The singular flexure in the windpipe of the Hooping Swan and Crane. 1837 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. III. 742/2 Those who assert that it [sc. the white (mute) swan] has been bred out of the whooping swan, maintain..that one species of animal may, in a state of nature, and without any interference of art, originate another and different species. 1926 Auk 43 224 Three species of Swan occur in Denmark, of which Bewick's and the Whooping Swan are regular winter residents and the Mute Swan a breeding as well as a winter bird. 2019 Daily Mirror (N. Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 29 Nov. 20 Mr Murphy said the road would cut through the feeding fields of wintering whooping swans and destroy the Lough Beg wetland. † whooping turtle n. (in form hooping turtle) Obsolete rare the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta.The reason for the name is unclear. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Cheloniidae > member of genus Eretmochelys (hawk's-bill) hawk's-bill turtle1657 whooping turtle1712 hawkbilla1757 tortoiseshell turtle1886 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 276 The very large hooping or logger-head Turtle..(as they are call'd) found in Brazil in great plenty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1557adj.adv.1607
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