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Stoop

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A stooping, bent position of the body.
"The old man walked with a stoop."
2
A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
3
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence. Canada, New-Jersey, New-York, also
"Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door."
4
A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine. dialectal
5
an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward wordnet

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6
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
"At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry"
7
The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep. US
"A short flight of iron steps leads up to it and a storm door is built over the stoop, forming a little vestibule, and serving to keep out the gusts."
8
small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house wordnet
9
basin for holy water wordnet

Verb

1
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
"He stooped to tie his shoe-laces."
2
carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward wordnet
3
To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.
"Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?"
4
sag, bend, bend over or down wordnet
5
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey. intransitive
"the holy eagle Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is More sweet then our blest Fields"

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6
bend one's back forward from the waist on down wordnet
7
To cause to incline downward; to slant. transitive
"to stoop a cask of liquor"
8
descend swiftly, as if on prey wordnet
9
To cause to submit; to prostrate. transitive
"Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive."
10
debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way wordnet
11
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
"The grasse stoops not, she treads on it so light"
12
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
"Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From Middle English stope, stoupe, from Old Norse staup (“dip, well, cup”), from Proto-Germanic *staupą, related to the verb *staupijaną (“to steep”). Related to Old English stēap (“drinking vessel, cup, flagon, stoop”).

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Dutch stoep (“platform", "pavement”). Doublet of stoep. Cognate with step.

Etymology 5

From Middle English stoupe, stulpe, from Old Norse stólpi (“post, pillar”), from Proto-Germanic *stulpô.

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