Shoop

//ʃuːp// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Used as a scat word in song lyrics.

    "If you want to know / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / If he loves you so / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / It's in his kiss."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The fruit of the rose; rosehip. Northern-England
  2. 2
    Used as a singular form of sheep: an individual sheep. humorous, slang

    "I thought you were a goats^([sic – meaning goat]) not a shoop."

  3. 3
    An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of amateur, petty fauxtography. Internet
Verb
  1. 1
    To digitally alter an image.

Etymology

Etymology 1

* As a German surname, Americanized from Schupp. * Also an Americanized spelling of Dutch and North German Schoop, from Middle Dutch schoepe and Middle Low German schōpe (“ladle”) (for which see modern Schöpflöffel).

Etymology 2

From Middle English schoupe, from Old Norse *hjúpa (“rosehip”), from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (“haw, hawthorn, thornbush, rosehip”). Cognate with Faroese hjúpa (“rosehip”), Old English hēope (“hip, rosehip”). Doublet of hip.

Etymology 3

A meaningless syllable.

Etymology 4

A deliberate back-formation from sheep on the pattern of nouns which underwent Germanic i-mutation, such as feet from foot, geese from goose, and teeth from tooth; compare the similarly humorously formed meese from moose.

Etymology 5

Alteration of shop, a clipping of photoshop (“digitally altered image”).

Etymology 6

Alteration of shop, a clipping of photoshop (“digitally altered image”).

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