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▪ I. soop, v. Sc. and north. dial.|suːp|
Forms: 6 swowp-, suowp-, swop-, sowp, 6, 9 soup, 6, 9– soop, 9 supe.
[a. ON. sópa (Icel. sópa, Norw. and Sw. sopa), for earlier *swópan, related to OE. swápan: see sweep v.]
1. trans. To sweep (a house, etc.).
c1480[see sooping vbl. n. below]. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. iii. (S.T.S.) I. 252 The soroufull moderis fell..to þe ground, sowpand þe templis with þare hare. 1538Lyndesay Supplic. Contempt. Syde Taillis 30 Quhare euer thay go, it may be sene, How kirk and calsay thay soup clene. 17..Ramsay Wyfe of Auchtermuchty x, To soup the house he syne began. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxii, They that had their bread to won wi' ae arm..had mair to do than to soop houses. 1861E. B. Ramsay Remin. Ser. ii. 44, ‘I soupit the poupit,’ was John's expressive reply.
absol.1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 136 Let ilka ane soop before their ain door.
2. To remove, clear away, by sweeping.
c1480Henryson Fables, Cock & Jewel 76 Iowellis ar tynt..apone þe fluyr, & swoppyt furth anone.
3. To assist the progress of (a curling-stone) by sweeping the ice in front of it. Also with up.
1805McIndoe Poems 56 Supe, supe him up, another says. a1822A. Boswell Poet. Wks. (1871) 195 Soop the rink, lads, wide enough, The hog-scores mak', and mak' ilk brough. 1832–53Whistle-binkie Ser. iii. 39 He's weel laid on, soop him up, soop him up. 1885J. Strathesk More Bits from Blinkbonny (ed. 2) xiv. 270 Soop weel when I tell ye. 1891H. Johnston Kilmallie II. 110 The second and third players were ‘sooping up’, or ‘giving heels’ to laggard stones. 1963Times 17 Jan. 12/5 Rob Roy's country today echoed not with the war cry of the MacGregors but with strange shouts of ‘Yes, yes’ and ‘Soop, soop’ as the great bonspiel of the curling game was staged for only the second time in 37 years.
Hence ˈsooping vbl. n.
c1480Henryson Fables, Cock & Jewel 70 He fand a ioly iasp..wes cassyn out in swopyng of þe hous. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xxxii, Wi' their sossings and their soopings. 1937T. Henderson Lockerbie ix. 57 The ice being keen it required little soopin'. 1976Alyn & Deeside Observer 10 Dec. 5/2 Part of the fun of the game comes in ‘sooping’. This is when the players sweep the ice with special brooms in front of a moving stone to help it go further.
▪ II. soop
obs. f. soup n.; obs. or dial. var. sup n.1 and v.1 ; obs. pa. tense of sup v.1; obs. var. swoop. |