Roop
/ɹuːp/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Hoarseness.
Verb
- 1 To cry; shout. dialectal, intransitive
- 2 To roar; make a great noise. Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive
- 3 To make hoarse. dialectal, transitive, usually, with-up
"I am rooped up."
Synonyms
All synonymsEtymology
From Middle English ropen (“to cry out”), from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to call, shout, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Scots roup (“to shout, roar, cry out loudly”), Saterland Frisian roupe (“to call, shout”), Dutch roepen (“to shout, cry out”), German rufen (“to call, cry, shout”), Swedish ropa (“to call, cry out, shout”), Icelandic hrópa (“to cry out”).