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▪ I. scroop, n.1|skruːp|
[Echoic; cf. scroop v.]
a. A harsh, strident, or scraping noise.
a1859Househ. Words XXX. 139 This man could mimic every word and scroop and shout that might be supposed proper to such a scene [the pulling of teeth]. 1868M. E. Braddon Trail Serpent vi. iv, The door opened with a scroop. 1892Chamb. Jrnl. 12 Nov. 734/2 There is always a scroop of chairs moving on the stone floor.
b. The rustling sound and crisp feel associated especially with silk but capable of being imparted also to other fabrics by special treatment.
1892G. H. Hurst Silk Dyeing i. 9 Dilute mineral acids have no appreciable action on silk, but they have the property of imparting to it a peculiar ‘scroop’ or crackle. 1921C. Salter tr. Ganswindt's Dyeing Silk 32 The so-called ‘scroop’ of silk..is only observed in scoured silk that has been treated with weak acids. 1954Economist 24 Apr. 291/1 Non-cellulose synthetics may be too hot in summer..and..it is difficult to give them such qualities as ‘scroop’, the trade name for the rustle that women like. 1961Blackshaw & Brightman Dict. Dyeing & Textile Printing 154 Scroop... This property can be imparted to textile materials other than silk by, for example, soap in conjunction with an organic acid. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 208/2 Scroop..is not a natural property of the fibre [sc. silk] but is developed by processing treatments, and does not indicate quality.
▪ II. scroop, n.2 rare—1.
? Perh. a mistake for scruff.
1850E. Brontë Wuthering Heights iii, I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dog-kennel.
▪ III. scroop, v.|skruːp|
[Echoic.
Cf. skruke, ‘the noise made by a chair being drawn along a brick floor’ (Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norfolk, 1893).]
intr. To make a strident, grating, or scraping sound; to grate, creak, squeak.
1787Grose Prov. Gloss. s.v., The jack scroops. 1826Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) II. 194 It is boundless joy to me, to contemplate this infernal system [of paper-money] in its hour of wreck: swag here; crack there: scroop this way: souse that way. 1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Legacy xxxiv. 401 She heard the shutters of the dairy scroop on their hinges. 1886J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 110 The iron gate scrooped on its hinges.
Hence ˈscrooping vbl. n.
1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Legacy xxxiv. 410 Without any of the scrooping or vibrating that usually accompanies a pull-up. 1884M. E. Braddon Ishmael II. 232 Opening the doors as cautiously as a practised burglar, lest the porter or his wife should be awakened by the scrooping of a bolt. |