whoop

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• /wuːp/
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• homophone: hoop (for one pronunciation of the noun and the associated intransitive verb)
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• CMU ARPABET: W UW1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).

From a traditional African American and Southern US pronunciation of whip.

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: възглас (vǎzglas) — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Bulgarian: вик (vik) — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Czech: zavýsknutí — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Czech: výkřik — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Finnish: kiljahdus — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• French: hurlement — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Irish: cuach — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Italian: grido — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Italian: urlo — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Romanian: urlet — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Russian: во́зглас (vózglas) — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Russian: вы́крик (výkrik) — An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy
• Bulgarian: магарешка кашлица (magareška kašlica) — A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough
• Italian: urlo della pertosse — A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough
• Russian: ка́шель (kášelʹ) — A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough
• Bulgarian: възкликвам (vǎzklikvam) — to make a whoop
• Czech: výskat — to make a whoop
• Czech: křičet — to make a whoop
• French: hurler — to make a whoop
• Russian: ги́кать (gíkatʹ) — to insult with shouts; to chase with derision
• Russian: улюлю́кать (uljuljúkatʹ) — to insult with shouts; to chase with derision
• Finnish: hakata — to beat, to strike
• Italian: picchiare — to beat, to strike
• Italian: colpire — to beat, to strike
• Russian: колоти́ть (kolotítʹ) — to beat, to strike
• Russian: поколоти́ть (pokolotítʹ) — to beat, to strike
• Bulgarian: разбивам (razbivam) — to defeat thoroughly
• Finnish: hakata — to defeat thoroughly
• Finnish: piestä — to defeat thoroughly
• Italian: annientare — to defeat thoroughly
• Russian: разгроми́ть (razgromítʹ) — to defeat thoroughly