scoopn.¹

Brit.

/skuːp/,

/skʊp/,

/skəʊp/, U.S.

/skup/

Forms: Middle English–1500s scope, Scottish and northern skowp, Middle English scowpe, 1500s skop(e, scoupe, skoupe, Scottish skwpe, skupe, northern skoppe, 1500s–1600s scoope, 1600s skoope, scowp, 1600s– scoop.

Etymology: Apparently of twofold origin (which is reflected in the diversity of pronunciation): (1) < Middle Low German schôpe (feminine) (whence probably Middle Swedish skôpa ) or Middle Dutch schôpe , schoepe (modern Dutch schoep ) vessel for drawing or bailing out water, bucket of a waterwheel, corn-scoop = Middle High German schuofe (early modern German schufe , modern High German dialect schuffe ) < West Germanic *skōpōn- , < *skōp- ablaut-variant of *skap- , root of *skappjan to draw water (Old Saxon sceppian , Low German, Dutch scheppen , Old High German scephan , Middle High German schepfen , modern German schöpfen ); (2) Middle Dutch schoppe (feminine) (modern Dutch schop ) = Middle Low German schuppe shovel (whence modern German schüppe ) < Germanic type *skuppōn- , probably representing an older *skuƀnó- , < root *skuƀ- : skeuƀ-: see shove v.¹The two words, though etymologically quite distinct, have, owing to their close resemblance in form and sense, been to some extent confused in continental Germanic. The senses of both are represented in the French adoption écope (c1413 escope, modern dialect escope, escoupe, écoupe) vessel or ladle for bailing out water, large shovel, skimming-dish. It is possible that the word may have come into English through French; but the French word is first found nearly a century later than the English, and as the term was in nautical use immediate adoption < Dutch or Low German is not improbable.

a. A utensil for bailing out, ladling or skimming liquids; usually in the form of a ladle or a concave shovel with a straight handle. Now chiefly Nautical and dialect.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel for scooping liquid > [noun]

ladlea1000

spoocher1294

scoopc1330

lade-bowl1420

laving-bowl1457

bail1466

jet1501

lade-pail1558

lade-gallonc1575

lade-mele1579

spudgel1775

dipper1783

baler1875

bailer1883

tabo1900

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8168 Folk..þat þe water wiþ scopes vp drowe.

?1362 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 566 In emendacione unius scope pro aqua evacuanda in quarera, 2d.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 65 A scope is deep & hool, to resceyue watyr.

1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 454 Item, for vj greit skowpis for the greit schip to cast the watter, iij s.

1594 Fairfax Inv. in Archaeologia (1884) 48 133 Item one mashefatt,..iij sooes and ij scopes.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. li. 546 Be furnished of..scoopes of iron, to draw and emptie out the oiles.

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 96 The long crooked scoop with which Dutch Mariners throw up water to wet their sails.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Coal Water..is dash'd on with a great Dish or Scoop.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Scoop, a little hollowed piece of wood, employed to throw water out of a boat.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 417 The scoop best adapted to this purpose [i.e. lifting liquid manure] is a small wooden pitcher,..the helve passing through its sides in an oblique direction.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Scoop, a long spoon-shaped piece of wood to throw water, when washing a ship's sides in the morning.

1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Scope, a bowl with a straight wooden handle fixed to it. Used for baling or skimming... In salt making a scope is a wooden bowl used for skimming the scum from brine.

b. transferred and figurative.

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c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 2 Watris of cursyng..muste be cast out of ȝoure pytt with a scope of penaunce.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B2 They had neede be large long Spoons (say you) if I come to feed with such whipsters. Let me alone, for my actiuity, at the dish meat, and a long arme, though my scoope be the shorter.

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 18 Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped.

c. The bucket of a waterwheel or of a dredging or draining machine. [So Dutch schoep.]

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water > parts of

awe1503

scoop1591

float1611

ladle1611

sole1675

float-board1719

ladle-board1744

paddle1758

shrouding1797

wrist1797

polroz1806

breastwork1833

flap1839

shrouding-plate1844

shroud-plate1844

staving1875

shroud-

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Alcaduz The scoope in a water wheele.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scoop (Hydraulic Engineering), the bucket of a dredging-machine.

1888 W. H. Wheeler Drainage Fens v. 73 The scoops beat or lift the water from the lower to the upper side.

d. Applied to a mechanical contrivance for drawing water.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water

well bucket1477

flail?a1500

kettle-mill1570

scoop1580

water engine1611

chain-pumpa1618

cochlea1648

water-screw1648

engine1652

bucket-fountain1663

chain1682

noria1696

tub-engine1702

tub-gin1702

well-pole1727

screw engine1729

rag1747

rag pump1747

swape1773

picotah1780

water balance1800

ram1801

well sweep1818

shadoof1836

hydraulic belt1856

water carrier1875

bailer1883

trip-bucket1926

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Bascule à tirer l'eau..a scoupe to drawe water out of a shallow well.

1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 516/2 Mr. W. Fairbairn..has contrived a new form of scoop or alternating trough [for drainage purposes].

a. A kind of shovel (varying greatly in size and shape according to its special purpose), used for dipping out or shovelling up and carrying materials of a loose nature; usually an implement of iron, tin, etc. with a short handle and a broad, concave, or curved blade, the part of which next the handle is often covered over to form a receptacle for the material scooped up.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > shovel > other shovels

shod-shovel1465

scoop1487

peel?a1500

paring-shovel1531

cole-rake1575

rabble1664

van1664

steam shovel1801

ballast wagon1838

wirra1896

power shovel1902

society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > shovel

shovelc725

scoop1844

spader1867

banjo1918

idiot stick1930

1487 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 63 Shovills..iij dd j, Scopis..j.

1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 203 Skoopes for pitche.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 478 His accusations..are throwen together in an heape with full skoupes.

1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1070 Brewers use to keep their Barly..laid about a foot in depth, and so turned over now and then with Scoops.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 549 The charge of coals is most conveniently introduced [into the gas retort] in a tray of sheet iron, made somewhat like a grocer's scoop.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 284 A couple of wooden scoops,..to shovel up the corn in heaps, are useful implements in a corn-barn.

1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 739/2 [Gas-making.] Each retort is recharged by means of a long curved tray of sheet-iron,..called a scoop.

1906 Daily News 16 Sept. 6 Huge canvas scoops were used to shovel the dried hops into..heaps.

†b. A gunner's ladle = ladle n. 2a. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > ladle

ladle1497

scoop1525

1525 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 258 Skupis for the artalȝere.

1635 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 15 1092 The Gunners in charging her, wet not at all the scoop, or spunge.

3. An instrument with a spoon-shaped or gouge-shaped blade, used for cutting out a piece from some soft material, or for removing a core or an embedded substance.

a. Applied to various small utensils in domestic use: chiefly short for apple scoop n., cheese scoop n., potato-scoop n., for which see the first element.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > spoon

tiremoelle1669

marrow spoon1693

scoop1747

marrow scoop1755

cooking spoon1848

measuring spoon1926–7

apple scoop1969

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > gouging tools

scoop1747

scooper1837

scorper1843

groover1865

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiv. 134 With a small Scoope very carefully take off the Eye [of the Codling] as whole as you can, and scoope out the Core.

1774 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 81 I have not been able to get your silver scoop yet... I could not wait for it, as I thought you might want the fruit.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 612 The eye or root-bud of the potatoe..is usually cut out of it by a scoop..to the thickness of about half a crown.

b. A similar instrument for surgical purposes.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > scoops or gouges

spoona1425

gouge1495

curette1739

scoop1739

spud1869

1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. xviii. 86 It is much safer to..lay hold of it [the Stone] with the Forceps, than endeavour with the Scoop..to force it outwards.

1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) Index Acne, aural, gallstone, lithotomy, lupus scoops [etc.].

c. (See quot. 1862.)

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1862 G. W. S. Piesse Art of Perfumery (ed. 3) 254 Balls are cut by hand, with the aid of a little tool called a ‘scoop’, made of brass or ivory, being, in fact, a ring-shaped knife.

d. Applied to certain tools used in excavation of soil; hence, the quantity of earth taken up at once by a scoop. †Also in Horticulture, a hollow trowel.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > gardening tool > trowel

scoop1706

trowel1796

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > by scooping > that which is

scoop1846

1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. iii. vi. 254 The Displanting Scoop is made use of to take up some Sorts of Plants with the Earth about them.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 503 The scoop..is then employed to cut under the last narrow spit.

1846 in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 238 Now take a navigator's scoop, that will measure three and a half inches from edge to edge, taking straight across the front or hollow side. With this instrument commence digging another ditch... After the first few scoops have been taken out of the lower ditch..the covering in should commence.

1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1100 The bottom [of a drain] being made smooth and level by means of the scoop.

†4. A kind of basket. Cf. skep n., and Middle Dutch schoepe winnowing-basket (= fan n.¹ 1a). Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > other types of basket

ped1390

crestyna1400

figonalea1525

scoop1546

maise1624

petaca1648

murlin1788

pegall1796

hanging basket1850

pannier1875

kilta1876

1546 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 174 A thirde q^t. a scope of Olyves cost vj^d.

1673 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 204 They let him down in a scoop or basket.

5. A variety of coal-box, somewhat resembling a flour-scoop in shape; short for coal scoop n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > container in which to store coal

coal pot1681

coal box1701

coal scuttle1730

coal scoop1743

coal hod1781

hoda1825

coal skip1831

purdonium1847

scuttle1849

scoop1850

1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict.

6. Short for scoop-net n.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > net on pole

pout net1443

sleeching-net1665

stick net1678

scoop-net1792

shoulder net1793

skimming net1806

stoop-net1806

dip-net1858

pole net1858

scoop1865

dipping-net1867

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 420 The fish-nets..are of two kinds, the scoop and the seine.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

scoop-load n.

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1841 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Oct. 233 A scoop load may be taken at one tenth of a cubic yard.

scoop-spade n.

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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 601 Any loose soil..should be..taken out by a scoop spade.

scoop-tool n.

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1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 153 An iron-edged scoop~tool.

scoop-like adj.

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1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iii. v. 240 A Scoup-like Instrument.

1883 F. Day Indian Fish 64 A scoop-like net for catching small fish.

scoop-shaped adj.

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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 302 The buckets..are..scoop-shaped.

C2.

scoop bonnet n. a woman's bonnet shaped like a scoop; also scoop-shovel bonnet.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > coal scuttle or sun bonnet

coal-scuttle bonnet1797

sun bonnet1820

kappie1834

scoop bonnet1846

1846 E. W. Farnham Life in Prairie Land 102 Sometimes her scoop bonnet covered half my field of vision.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xvii. 137 One was a woman in a slim black dress..and a large scoop-shovel bonnet.

1897 J. L. Allen Choir Invisible i. 3 On her head she wore an enormous white scoop-bonnet.

1901 W. Churchill Crisis i. iv. 40 Her face was in that most seductive of frames, a scoop bonnet of dark green velvet.

1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide 30 [Portraits] of ladies in flowered scoop bonnets..gazed down upon him with rigid disapproval.

1941 L. I. Wilder Little Town on Prairie xix. 222 She wore a sweeping black gown and a scoop bonnet.

scoop driver n. (see quot.).

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1892 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) The scoop driver..guides the scoop into the [gas] retort, turns it over, and then brings it back again for filling.

scoop wheel n. [compare 1c] a wheel driven by wind or steam for lifting water.

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1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 90/1 I have always used scoop-wheels, the float-boards of which dip 5 feet below the water's surface.

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scoopn.²

Brit.

/skuːp/, U.S.

/skup/

Etymology: < scoop v.¹

a. The action or an act of scooping. Also, a quantity scooped up.

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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > by scooping

scoop1745

scooping1841

the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a definite or specified quantity or amount > specific quantities or amounts > quantity scooped, thrown, lifted, etc.

lifta1400

casta1475

draught1740

pouring1768

draw1830

scoop1832

pour1899

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in curve > propelling or taking by scooping movement

scoop1851

1745 E. Young Consolation 47 Excavated Grots..Yawning wide From Nature's Structure, or the Scoop of Time.

1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. iii. 34 Nine scoops of water in the hollow of the hand, from a sycamore spring.., will break an ague.

1851 W. Bolland Cricket Notes 13 That runs were obtained more readily..by off hitting than by the old scoop to leg.

1908 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 396 He makes wild scoops at the fighting fish.

b. Music. = portamento n.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > portamento

portamento1771

slide1818

scoop1911

1911 W. K. Smith Training Village Choirs 8 The scoop is made on the commencing note of a tune or phrase. It consists in attacking it by way of a chromatic slide from the ‘fourth’ below.

1967 A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. i. 64 The sundry ways the folk singer has of passing from note to note by means of scoops, slides, hovers and such.

1975 Gramophone Aug. 316/1 He pulls the Rosamunde ‘Entr'acte’ about horribly and there are all sorts of period scoops that modern listeners will find intolerable.

1977 Early Music 5 343/2 Special techniques and playing styles that can be developed are..‘scoops’ on a note, e.g. D–C♯–D completely slurred and glided simply by relaxing the breath pressure and increasing it again, keeping the fingering for the upper note held all the time.

2. concrete.

a. A place scooped or hollowed out; also, a natural concavity or hollow resembling this; rarely, an artificial basin for water. Also scoop-out.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun]

dalea800

piteOE

dike847

hollowc897

hole946

seathc950

delfOE

hollc1050

ditchc1275

lakec1320

holetc1380

slacka1500

dell1531

vault1535

pit-hole1583

delve1590

lough1672

sinusa1676

gap1696

self-lough1700

scoop1780

cup1819

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > for fluid > sunk or indented

sump1680

well1848

scoop1871

1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. vii. 138 He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted the beauty of the gentle swell, or concave scoop.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel l. 115 Here a knoll and there a scoop.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona in Poems xxviii The conduits round the gardens sing And meet in scoops of milk-white stone.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. ii. 21 All foot and horse tracks made previous to the storm had been abraded and blurred by the drops, and they were now so many little scoops of water.

1884 Milit. Engineering ii. 33 Most of the pieces would be fired through countersloping scoops.

1900 Daily News 1 June 3/1 Lying in a shallow scoop-out among the hills.

b. Film and Television. (See quots.)

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > lights

sun arc1889

sunlight1928

photoflood1933

scoop1940

sun gun1960

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 747/2 Scoop, one or more suspended broadsides, which are special types of incandescent flood-lights for use in motion-picture studios.

1974 Some Techn. Terms & Slang (Granada Television) Scoop, 500 watt lamp suspended from studio ceiling.

3. In various slang uses.

a. on the scoop, ‘on the drink, or a round of dissipation’ (Farmer).

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adverb] > on a drinking bout

on (also upon) the spree1847

on a spree1847

on the booze1850

on the scoop1871

on the beer1887

on the bash1901

on a whizzer1910

on the piss1929

1871 F. C. Burnand More Happy Thoughts xxxiv. 248 ‘Both the nautical Cockalorums have been going on the scoop, and are slightly moppy.’ By which we understand him to mean, that the two naval officers have had as much as is bad for them.

1884 Graphic 30 Aug. 223/2 A young stockbroker..who, in the absence of his wife, has gone on the scoop with his father-in-law.

a1893 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 47 An English Milord on the scoop carn't be equalled at blueing a quid.

b. Originally U.S. (See quots. 1886¹, 1906.) Cf. scoop v.¹ 5b. Also transferred.

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society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > item > news item > exclusive

beat1873

scoop1874

exclusive1901

1874 Macomb (Illinois) Eagle 23 Nov. 1/2 Owing to a slight misunderstanding, the Sentinel found itself without a copy of the decision, and for a time a terrible scoop seemed imminent.

1886 Phonetic Jrnl. 6 Feb. 63/1 In American newspaper offices an item of news is valued largely according to the likelihood of its being an exclusive piece of information, or a ‘scoop’.

1886 Phonetic Jrnl. 6 Feb. 63/2 ‘Has the Herald got that water-pipe contract paragraph in its City Hall column?’ ‘No,’ answers the Tribune city editor,..‘It's a scoop’.

1892 W. D. Howells Mercy 113 ‘Any scoops?’ asked Pinney, warily—‘Anything exclusive?’

1892 Nation (N.Y.) 29 Dec. 487/3 Is there one of us..who would not..conceal one [sc. a reporter] of his own in the shrubbery..so as to get ‘a scoop’ on his contemporaries?

1906 Daily Chron. 29 Jan. 4/6 The feat escaped the notice of the representatives of all other newspapers; so the item is what in Fleet-street language is styled an ‘exclusive’ or ‘scoop’.

1913 E. Pound Let. Mar. (1971) 16 It's our second scoop, for I only found the man [sc. Robert Frost] by accident and I think I've about the only copy of the book that has left the shop.

1917 G. K. Chesterton Short Hist. Eng. xiv. 181 One of these scares and scoops (not to add the less technical name of lies) was the Popish Plot.

1920 Times 25 Oct. 15/3 The edition would have been on the streets..leaving the heartbroken editor to bewail the death of his great ‘scoop’.

1930 ‘Sapper’ Finger of Fate 127 The first thing to do was to get on the 'phone to his editor, because he had intended returning to London that night. He knew there would be no difficulty—especially if he gave a hint over the wire that he was on a scoop.

1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xvii. 283 The newspapers paid well for ‘beats’, as ‘scoops’ were now called.

1969 S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xvii. 152 I have a beat for you... That is the right word, beat? They stopped using scoop in the movies in the thirties.

1973 D. Barnes See the Woman 75 We've got some scoop that our outstanding suspect is holed up in the Rocket Motel.

c. U.S. ‘A sudden breaking down of prices for the purpose of buying stocks at cheaper rates followed by a rise’.

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1879 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl.; and in later Dicts.

d. A lucky stroke of business, a ‘haul’.

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the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired > lucky or valuable

haul1776

scoop1893

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 166 You'll see how I work a big scoop when I get it.

1909 Daily Chron. 27 July 1/6 Her engagement..at the Palace is a big ‘scoop’.

Compounds

scoop neck n. a rounded, low-cut neck on a garment; also (with hyphen) attributive.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering or next to neck > neck-line > types of

décolletage1894

décolletée1907

V-neck1910

boat neckline1921

boat neck1922

bateau line1923

halter neck(line)1935

jewel neckline1935

crew neckline1939

jewel neck1940

plunging neckline1940

plunge neckline1941

scoop neck1953

scooped neckline1956

sabrina neckline1959

sweetheart neck1965

1953 New Yorker 20 June 64/2 At Rosette Pennington, 20 East 56th Street, there's a cool little sleeveless black cotton dress with a scoop neck and a full, flounced skirt.

1956 New Yorker 28 Jan. 68/3 There are short beach coats and scoop-neck dresses, all of the same material.

1972 Vogue Jan. 22 Bell sleeves, scoop neck, pintucks on jacket.

1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. d14 (advt.) The tab-closing jacket with a skirt and scoop-neck shell in pink or beige.

scoop-necked adj.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > neckline

decolouredc1430

high1590

low-cuta1600

low1818

low-necked1830

low-neck1858

décolleté1884

semi-high1905

boat-shaped1921

turtle-necked1931

crew neck1940

polo-collared1946

polo-necked1948

plunge-line1949

plunge-necked1949

crew-necked1950

plunge neck1951

scoop-necked1955

bateau-necked1959

1955 New Yorker 17 Sept. 96/1 De Pinna has acquired another sleeveless, scoop-necked Trigère dress.

1977 Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 15/4 The scoop-necked three-quarter mohair-knit coat over scooped-necked long-torso fine-knit sweater.

scoop neckline n. = scoop neck n.

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1959 Times 21 Sept. 12/4 A gown of deep cream satin with a fitting bodice, a scoop neckline, and a full skirt.

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scoopv.¹

Brit.

/skuːp/, U.S.

/skup/

Forms: Also Middle English scope, Middle English, 1500s scoupe.

Etymology: < scoop n.¹

1. transitive. To lade or bail out (water) with or as with a ‘scoop’. Also with out. Now rare.

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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > bail

scoopc1330

lade1340

empt1555

free1612

bail1614

bale1692

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8164 Do scope þis water, & turn þe borne.

c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 155 Scopen out þe scaþel water.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 65 Ȝow nedyth..to scopyn out þis corrupte watyr of curs, wyth þe scoope of penauns.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 2 Vnder þis watyr in ȝoure pytt, whan þe watyr is scopyd out, is deep wose be-nethe.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 699/2 Let us scoupe out the water out of this ponde.

a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnnnn2/1 Tis as easie with a Sive to scoope the Ocean, as To tame Petruchio.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 465 He scoop'd the Water from the Crystal Flood.

1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 282 The Waves seemed to redouble their violence, for the Boat scooped one fairly over us.

absolute.c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 66 Þe scope of þi penaunce..muste be deep in sorwe,..& ellys þou scopyst in veyn.

a. To remove or detach (a portion of friable or soft material, or part of a heap of objects) by passing a scoop or concave instrument obliquely through the mass, so as to leave a rounded hollow; to rake in as with a scoop. Chiefly with away, out, up. Also, to take out (a core, some embedded object) with or as with a scoop.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > with a scoop

scoop1622

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > with a scoop > as with a scoop

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1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 135 There are some kinde of people so cruell and vnconscionable, that they thinke of nothing but deceit and cozenage, scooping like shouels all to themselues.

1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) ii. x. §5 71 Her Forefeet are broad, that she may scoup away much Earth at a time.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 578 Full in his Eye the Weapon chanc'd to fall, And from the Fibres scoop'd the rooted Ball.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiv. 134 With a small Scoope very carefully take off the Eye [of the Codling] as whole as you can, and scoope out the Core.

1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 161 It was plainly formed by scooping the earth from the sides.

1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 164 The Indians..scoop them [sc. fish] up with small nets.

1867 W. D. Howells Ital. Journeys iii. 16 The name of Byron..had been scooped away by the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Last Confession in Poems 546 She..fell, and her stiff bodice scooped the sand Into her bosom.

absolute.1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 393 Whatever part of the Harbour they scoop in, it has an Influence on all the rest, for the Sea immediately works the whole Bottom to a Level.

b. To heap up, or collect together as by means of a scoop; figurative to obtain by effort from various quarters.

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1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 503 The government, instead of laboriously scooping up supplies from numerous petty sources, could now draw whatever it required from an immense reservoir.

c. U.S. To take (oysters) with a dredge. Also intransitive.

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1891 in Cent. Dict.

a. transitive. To hollow out with or as with a scoop; to form a concavity or depression in. Also with out.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave > (as) by scooping

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1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 396 The little Race of Birds, that hop from Spray to Spray, scooping the costliest Fruit.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 50. ¶3 As soon as this Rock was thus curiously scooped to their Liking.

1726 Whole Art & Myst. of Mod. Gaming 31 Such as Quatre-Trois..are made new by the Die-maker..whereas Loaded Dice are easy to Scoop or Load.

1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 7 Consult the Genius of the Place in all, That..scoops in circling Theatres the Vale.

1801 J. Mollard Art of Cookery 127 Take clean turnips and carrots, and scoop or cut them into shapes.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 87 The rocks below having been scooped out by the glacier in old days.

1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan II. 84 The posts are scooped at the top, and heavy poles, resting on the scoops, are laid along them.

b. intransitive. To make a hollow as with a scoop. (In quot. 1863 in indirect passive.)

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (intransitive)] > curve concavely > make a hollow

scoop1863

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 189 A pitch black rock, scooped into by the stream.

4. To form by scooping or as if by scooping. Also with out.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave > (as) by scooping > form (as) by scooping

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1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 161 These..The mountain-cisterns fill, those grand reserves Of water, scoop'd among the hollow rocks.

c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xx. 10 See the wild Sons of Lapland's chill domain, That scoop their Couch beneath the drifted Snows!

1765 O. Goldsmith Traveller (ed. 2) 15 The firm connected bulwark [sc. the dikes of Holland]..Spreads its long arms amidst the watry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore.

1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 72 Scoop'd from the woods unnumber'd spots were seen Embrown'd with culture.

1816 Ld. Byron Prisoner of Chillon vii He died, and they..scoop'd for him a shallow grave.

1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xlix, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 25 Sometimes we scoop the squirrel's hollow cell.

1841 B. Hall Patchwork I. vii. 107 Vaults scooped out by the running water.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine i. 60 One of us scooped out a horse, more complete than any of these sculptured animals, in ten minutes.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xviii. 484 The path was scooped out to a depth of four feet like a miniature railway cutting.

5. slang.

a. To take or take up in large quantities; to appropriate (something) in advance of or to the exclusion of other competitors. Chiefly to scoop in (or up). Also in various extended uses; esp. to defeat, destroy, get the better of. to scoop the kitty (or pool), in Gambling, to win all the money that is staked; also transferred, to gain everything, to be completely successful. In some uses difficult to distinguish from sense 6.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)]

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forecomec1000

overwieldlOE

masterc1225

overmaistrie1340

overmatcha1375

overpassa1382

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to have the fairer (of)c1400

maistriec1400

overmasterc1425

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overc1485

bestride1526

rixlec1540

overreach1555

control1567

overmate1567

govern1593

to give (a person) the lurch1598

get1600

to gain cope of1614

top1633

to fetch overa1640

down1641

to have the whip hand (of)1680

carberry1692

to cut down1713

to be more than a match for1762

outflank1773

outmaster1799

outgeneral1831

weather1834

best1839

fore-reach1845

to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849

scoop1850

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to do down1900

to get (someone) wetc1926

lick1946

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > (as) with a shovel or scoop

skim1665

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scoop1850

the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate > in large quantities

gobble1825

scoop1850

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > all

to sweep the board1882

to scoop the kitty (or pool)1916

1850 W. Colton Three Years in Calif. xxxiii. 440 A faith that could scoop up whole tribes of savages,..impressing them with the conviction that submission to the padres was obedience to God.

1866 Harper's Mag. Oct. 680/1 Tell him he'll have to send this other fellow some more beans, for I've got him scooped [at draw-poker].

1867 A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi xi. 134 ‘Scooped’ was an importation from Wall Street. ‘I am badly scooped’ meant [in Kansas]: ‘I am used up’ or ‘defeated’.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 333 ‘It ain't no use. They've scooped him.’ ‘Scooped him?’ ‘Yes—death has.’

1882 J. D. McCabe New York 160 (Farmer) He runs seventy 'busses on this line, and scoops in three 'r four hundred a day.

1888 W. D. Howells Annie Kilburn xi. 118 The Irish are spreading out into the country and scooping in the farms that are not picturesque enough for the summer folks.

1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 11 They felt it..a..personal defeat that he..should scoop every chance that was going.

1903 A. Bennett Leonora vii. 194 Milly had shown a straight flush and scooped the kitty.

1903 R. Kipling Stellenbosh in Five Nations 195 The Boojers scooped the crowd, To the last survivin' bandolier an' boot.

1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xxii. 297 We have won any way; and if Peter has had a slice of luck, we've scooped the pool.

1929 H. Maclaren Private Opinions of Brit. Blue-Jacket 100 I haves everey intentuons to make a short spich, as scoops in the old man also a fairly wheard tipe of two passingers.

1929 H. Maclaren Private Opinions of Brit. Blue-Jacket 101 This phrase from ‘scoops in the old man’ is plainly to be interpreted, by any one familiar with the ways of the fo'c'sle, as ‘we have persuaded the captain to come, also two weird passengers’.

1937 H. C. Bailey Clunk's Claimant xlvi. 315 A million to one some side-line of a next of kin would bob up and pinch their share. Josh wouldn't scoop the pool.

1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime v. 70 There was a bit of unpleasantness at the Ball, and they scooped me in.

1944 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 48 363 De Havilland engines—the Gipsy, Gipsy Six and Gipsy Twelve..—together with the Cirrus, have almost completely ‘scooped the pool’ for light aircraft.

1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned viii. 69 There wasn't a girl..to touch her. She could walk right in and scoop the pool.

1959 Encounter Aug. 37/2 The rest of them were struggling..with razors and stakes... And soon I got scooped into the thing.

1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin ii. 27 You will give your consent to my scooping in the girl I love.

1973 ‘P. Malloch’ Kickback xxv. 164 You've scooped the pool. If you watch your step, you shouldn't have any more worries.

1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 23/9 Radford Swimming Club ended the 1976 season in fine style by scooping all but one award at the Notts. ASA Medley Team Swimming League.

1978 G. Mitchell Mingled with Venom iii. 23 Unless we all take care, that black boy the other lot adopted is going to scoop the pool.

b. In journalistic use. (Originally U.S.) To ‘cut out’ a rival reporter or editor, or his paper, by obtaining and publishing exclusive or earlier news. Also with the news as object, and occasionally the person from whom information is derived. Also transferred.

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society > communication > journalism > [verb (transitive)] > report > forestall rivals by

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1884 Christian World 5 June 421/2 He said he was not going to be scooped out by the other fellow.

1886 Phonetic Jrnl. 6 Feb. 63/1 The ever-gnawing anxiety of the city editor [in America] is to ‘scoop’ the opposition papers.

1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 38 Miss Jackson across the way has got it, and she's going to print it in to-morrow's paper, and I shall be scooped.

1937 L. Lewis Radio Dict. in Printers' Ink Monthly May 42/1 Scoop, to gainfully outwit a rival network or station in the broadcasting of a special event or public interest program.

1938 E. Waugh Scoop i. v. 88 He told..how Wenlock Jakes, highest paid journalist of the United States, scooped the world with an eye-witness story of the sinking of the Lusitania four hours before she was hit.

1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle vi. 143 Then if some British pressman should be handy—From a safe distance, priming him with brandy, To scoop their story in his red receivers.

1948 G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop v. 88 The Voice must scoop you when you retire from Scotland Yard.

1968 J. M. Ziman Public Knowl. v. 98 Many scientists are so obsessed with the fear of being ‘scooped’..that they issue a long succession of scrappy communications instead of waiting until the work is complete.

1974 Times 17 Apr. 16/7 The Israeli press..is sometimes scooped by the foreign press... The scooping..often results from ministerial indiscretions overseas.

1978 G. McDonald Fletch's Fortune vi. 49 Do you realize what it would be worth to a person's career to scoop the murder?..A handful of Pulitzer Prizes.

c. intransitive. Of a right whale: To feed by taking in large mouthfuls of brit. U.S.

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1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 264 Again the whale may be ‘scooping’ or feeding.

6. To propel or to take by or as by a scooping movement. Also with up.

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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by scooping movement

scoop1867

the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp > quickly or suddenly > snatch up

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plitcha1400

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snarf1968

1867 Australasian 19 Jan. 76/3 Davis scooped a slow to Dan Wilkie, who..held it.

1882 Sat. Rev. 2 Sept. 313/1 The last comer scooped his first ball round to leg for 2.

1886 F. R. Stockton Casting away Mrs. Lecks & Mrs. Aleshine 50 I'll never leave this place if I have to scoop myself out to sea with an oar.

1910 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 269/1 A very dark-coloured little man, with his arms and legs cut off, short at the knees and elbows,..scooping himself along on his stumps.

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 257 And he moved as if to scoop the German's head under his arm again.

1960 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 1/1 Helicopters flew to the rescue of villagers trapped by floods at Hampton Bishop, near Hereford, last night. Forty men, women and children were ‘scooped’ from their cottages as swirling water crept towards their upstairs rooms.

1961 ‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death xiii. 104 ‘I have a dinner date.’ ‘So do I,’ replied Nicolls, hastily scooping up the letter.

1963 G. H. Thomson Crocus Country xix. 127 Mother never allowed anyone to ‘scoop’ the ball, that is, push it ahead with the mallet.

1966 Listener 17 Mar. 384/2 When she moves off, either she scoops the infant up to help him cling to her or else he springs to catch hold of her.

1973 N. Graham Murder in Dark Room ix. 60 The phone rang and I scooped up the receiver and said, ‘Solo Malcolm here.’

1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance ii. 20 We'd be scooped up as we stepped off the gang~plank.

7. Music. intransitive. To perform a scoop (scoop n.² 1b).

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique

descanta1450

to stay on1579

to run division1590

divide1609

shake1611

flourish1766

tweedle-dee1837

slide1864

Wagnerize1866

to break a chord1879

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scoop1927

segue1958

rap1979

rhyme1979

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > reach note by slide from below

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1927 H. J. Wood Gentle Art of Singing 35 They are very apt to make a slow slur, to connect the notes by scooping and dragging the voice.

1958 A. Jacobs New Dict. Music 333 Scoop, in singing, to glide up to a note disagreeably from below instead of attacking it cleanly.

1975 Gramophone Nov. 846/3 In the thirties Busch was frequently praised because he scooped so rarely; as opposed to Lener who did it all the time.

1977 Gramophone Jan. 1154/2 Both violin and cello scoop heavily from note to note.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† scoopv.²

Forms: In 1600s scoup, scoope.

Etymology: Compare swoop v.

Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. Of a bird: To swoop at. Also transitive. To take (something) with a swoop.

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the world > animals > birds > bird of prey > [verb (transitive)] > swoop at or on

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scoop1605

hawk1825

1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles iii. G Like a Iacke-daw that when he lights vpon A dainty morsell, kaas and makes his brags, And then some kite doth scoope it from him straight.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xlvi. 261/1 Whiles they were measuring out the circuit, an Eagle scouping at the Line, fled with it ouer the Sea.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

n.¹c1330

n.²1745

v.¹c1330

v.²1605

单词	scoop
释义	scoopn.¹ Brit. /skuːp/, /skʊp/, /skəʊp/, U.S. /skup/ Forms: Middle English–1500s scope, Scottish and northern skowp, Middle English scowpe, 1500s skop(e, scoupe, skoupe, Scottish skwpe, skupe, northern skoppe, 1500s–1600s scoope, 1600s skoope, scowp, 1600s– scoop. Etymology: Apparently of twofold origin (which is reflected in the diversity of pronunciation): (1) < Middle Low German schôpe (feminine) (whence probably Middle Swedish skôpa ) or Middle Dutch schôpe , schoepe (modern Dutch schoep ) vessel for drawing or bailing out water, bucket of a waterwheel, corn-scoop = Middle High German schuofe (early modern German schufe , modern High German dialect schuffe ) < West Germanic skōpōn- , < skōp- ablaut-variant of skap- , root of skappjan to draw water (Old Saxon sceppian , Low German, Dutch scheppen , Old High German scephan , Middle High German schepfen , modern German schöpfen ); (2) Middle Dutch schoppe (feminine) (modern Dutch schop ) = Middle Low German schuppe shovel (whence modern German schüppe ) < Germanic type skuppōn- , probably representing an older skuƀnó- , < root skuƀ- : skeuƀ-: see shove v.¹The two words, though etymologically quite distinct, have, owing to their close resemblance in form and sense, been to some extent confused in continental Germanic. The senses of both are represented in the French adoption écope* (c1413 escope, modern dialect escope, escoupe, écoupe) vessel or ladle for bailing out water, large shovel, skimming-dish. It is possible that the word may have come into English through French; but the French word is first found nearly a century later than the English, and as the term was in nautical use immediate adoption < Dutch or Low German is not improbable. 1. a. A utensil for bailing out, ladling or skimming liquids; usually in the form of a ladle or a concave shovel with a straight handle. Now chiefly Nautical and dialect. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel for scooping liquid > [noun] ladlea1000 spoocher1294 scoopc1330 lade-bowl1420 laving-bowl1457 bail1466 jet1501 lade-pail1558 lade-gallonc1575 lade-mele1579 spudgel1775 dipper1783 baler1875 bailer1883 tabo1900 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8168 Folk..þat þe water wiþ scopes vp drowe. ?1362 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 566 In emendacione unius scope pro aqua evacuanda in quarera, 2d. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 65 A scope is deep & hool, to resceyue watyr. 1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 454 Item, for vj greit skowpis for the greit schip to cast the watter, iij s. 1594 Fairfax Inv. in Archaeologia (1884) 48 133 Item one mashefatt,..iij sooes and ij scopes. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. li. 546 Be furnished of..scoopes of iron, to draw and emptie out the oiles. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 96 The long crooked scoop with which Dutch Mariners throw up water to wet their sails. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Coal Water..is dash'd on with a great Dish or Scoop. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Scoop, a little hollowed piece of wood, employed to throw water out of a boat. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 417 The scoop best adapted to this purpose [i.e. lifting liquid manure] is a small wooden pitcher,..the helve passing through its sides in an oblique direction. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Scoop, a long spoon-shaped piece of wood to throw water, when washing a ship's sides in the morning. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Scope, a bowl with a straight wooden handle fixed to it. Used for baling or skimming... In salt making a scope is a wooden bowl used for skimming the scum from brine. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 2 Watris of cursyng..muste be cast out of ȝoure pytt with a scope of penaunce. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B2 They had neede be large long Spoons (say you) if I come to feed with such whipsters. Let me alone, for my actiuity, at the dish meat, and a long arme, though my scoope be the shorter. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 18 Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped. c. The bucket of a waterwheel or of a dredging or draining machine. [So Dutch schoep.] ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water > parts of awe1503 scoop1591 float1611 ladle1611 sole1675 float-board1719 ladle-board1744 paddle1758 shrouding1797 wrist1797 polroz1806 breastwork1833 flap1839 shrouding-plate1844 shroud-plate1844 staving1875 shroud- 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Alcaduz The scoope in a water wheele. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scoop (Hydraulic Engineering), the bucket of a dredging-machine. 1888 W. H. Wheeler Drainage Fens v. 73 The scoops beat or lift the water from the lower to the upper side. d. Applied to a mechanical contrivance for drawing water. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water well bucket1477 flail?a1500 kettle-mill1570 scoop1580 water engine1611 chain-pumpa1618 cochlea1648 water-screw1648 engine1652 bucket-fountain1663 chain1682 noria1696 tub-engine1702 tub-gin1702 well-pole1727 screw engine1729 rag1747 rag pump1747 swape1773 picotah1780 water balance1800 ram1801 well sweep1818 shadoof1836 hydraulic belt1856 water carrier1875 bailer1883 trip-bucket1926 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Bascule à tirer l'eau..a scoupe to drawe water out of a shallow well. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 516/2 Mr. W. Fairbairn..has contrived a new form of scoop or alternating trough [for drainage purposes]. 2. a. A kind of shovel (varying greatly in size and shape according to its special purpose), used for dipping out or shovelling up and carrying materials of a loose nature; usually an implement of iron, tin, etc. with a short handle and a broad, concave, or curved blade, the part of which next the handle is often covered over to form a receptacle for the material scooped up. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > shovel > other shovels shod-shovel1465 scoop1487 peel?a1500 paring-shovel1531 cole-rake1575 rabble1664 van1664 steam shovel1801 ballast wagon1838 wirra1896 power shovel1902 society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > shovel shovelc725 scoop1844 spader1867 banjo1918 idiot stick1930 1487 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 63 Shovills..iij dd j, Scopis..j. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 203 Skoopes for pitche. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 478 His accusations..are throwen together in an heape with full skoupes. 1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1070 Brewers use to keep their Barly..laid about a foot in depth, and so turned over now and then with Scoops. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 549 The charge of coals is most conveniently introduced [into the gas retort] in a tray of sheet iron, made somewhat like a grocer's scoop. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 284 A couple of wooden scoops,..to shovel up the corn in heaps, are useful implements in a corn-barn. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 739/2 [Gas-making.] Each retort is recharged by means of a long curved tray of sheet-iron,..called a scoop. 1906 Daily News 16 Sept. 6 Huge canvas scoops were used to shovel the dried hops into..heaps. †b. A gunner's ladle = ladle n. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > ladle ladle1497 scoop1525 1525 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 258 Skupis for the artalȝere. 1635 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 15 1092 The Gunners in charging her, wet not at all the scoop, or spunge. 3. An instrument with a spoon-shaped or gouge-shaped blade, used for cutting out a piece from some soft material, or for removing a core or an embedded substance. a. Applied to various small utensils in domestic use: chiefly short for apple scoop n., cheese scoop n., potato-scoop n., for which see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > spoon tiremoelle1669 marrow spoon1693 scoop1747 marrow scoop1755 cooking spoon1848 measuring spoon1926–7 apple scoop1969 society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > gouging tools scoop1747 scooper1837 scorper1843 groover1865 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiv. 134 With a small Scoope very carefully take off the Eye [of the Codling] as whole as you can, and scoope out the Core. 1774 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 81 I have not been able to get your silver scoop yet... I could not wait for it, as I thought you might want the fruit. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 612 The eye or root-bud of the potatoe..is usually cut out of it by a scoop..to the thickness of about half a crown. b. A similar instrument for surgical purposes. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > scoops or gouges spoona1425 gouge1495 curette1739 scoop1739 spud1869 1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. xviii. 86 It is much safer to..lay hold of it [the Stone] with the Forceps, than endeavour with the Scoop..to force it outwards. 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) Index Acne, aural, gallstone, lithotomy, lupus scoops [etc.]. c. (See quot. 1862.) ΚΠ 1862 G. W. S. Piesse Art of Perfumery (ed. 3) 254 Balls are cut by hand, with the aid of a little tool called a ‘scoop’, made of brass or ivory, being, in fact, a ring-shaped knife. d. Applied to certain tools used in excavation of soil; hence, the quantity of earth taken up at once by a scoop. †Also in Horticulture, a hollow trowel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > gardening tool > trowel scoop1706 trowel1796 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > by scooping > that which is scoop1846 1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. iii. vi. 254 The Displanting Scoop is made use of to take up some Sorts of Plants with the Earth about them. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 503 The scoop..is then employed to cut under the last narrow spit. 1846 in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 238 Now take a navigator's scoop, that will measure three and a half inches from edge to edge, taking straight across the front or hollow side. With this instrument commence digging another ditch... After the first few scoops have been taken out of the lower ditch..the covering in should commence. 1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1100 The bottom [of a drain] being made smooth and level by means of the scoop. †4. A kind of basket. Cf. skep n., and Middle Dutch schoepe winnowing-basket (= fan n.¹ 1a). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > other types of basket ped1390 crestyna1400 figonalea1525 scoop1546 maise1624 petaca1648 murlin1788 pegall1796 hanging basket1850 pannier1875 kilta1876 1546 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 174 A thirde q^t. a scope of Olyves cost vj^d. 1673 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 204 They let him down in a scoop or basket. 5. A variety of coal-box, somewhat resembling a flour-scoop in shape; short for coal scoop n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > container in which to store coal coal pot1681 coal box1701 coal scuttle1730 coal scoop1743 coal hod1781 hoda1825 coal skip1831 purdonium1847 scuttle1849 scoop1850 1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. 6. Short for scoop-net n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > net on pole pout net1443 sleeching-net1665 stick net1678 scoop-net1792 shoulder net1793 skimming net1806 stoop-net1806 dip-net1858 pole net1858 scoop1865 dipping-net1867 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 420 The fish-nets..are of two kinds, the scoop and the seine. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. scoop-load n. ΚΠ 1841 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Oct. 233 A scoop load may be taken at one tenth of a cubic yard. scoop-spade n. ΚΠ 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 601 Any loose soil..should be..taken out by a scoop spade. scoop-tool n. ΚΠ 1800 Trans. Soc. Arts 18 153 An iron-edged scoop~tool. b. scoop-like adj. ΚΠ 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iii. v. 240 A Scoup-like Instrument. 1883 F. Day Indian Fish 64 A scoop-like net for catching small fish. scoop-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 302 The buckets..are..scoop-shaped. C2. scoop bonnet n. a woman's bonnet shaped like a scoop; also scoop-shovel bonnet. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > woman's bonnet > types of > coal scuttle or sun bonnet coal-scuttle bonnet1797 sun bonnet1820 kappie1834 scoop bonnet1846 1846 E. W. Farnham Life in Prairie Land 102 Sometimes her scoop bonnet covered half my field of vision. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xvii. 137 One was a woman in a slim black dress..and a large scoop-shovel bonnet. 1897 J. L. Allen Choir Invisible i. 3 On her head she wore an enormous white scoop-bonnet. 1901 W. Churchill Crisis i. iv. 40 Her face was in that most seductive of frames, a scoop bonnet of dark green velvet. 1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide 30 [Portraits] of ladies in flowered scoop bonnets..gazed down upon him with rigid disapproval. 1941 L. I. Wilder Little Town on Prairie xix. 222 She wore a sweeping black gown and a scoop bonnet. scoop driver n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1892 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) The scoop driver..guides the scoop into the [gas] retort, turns it over, and then brings it back again for filling. scoop wheel n. [compare 1c] a wheel driven by wind or steam for lifting water. ΚΠ 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 90/1 I have always used scoop-wheels, the float-boards of which dip 5 feet below the water's surface. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scoopn.² Brit. /skuːp/, U.S. /skup/ Etymology: < scoop v.¹ 1. a. The action or an act of scooping. Also, a quantity scooped up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > by scooping scoop1745 scooping1841 the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun] > a definite or specified quantity or amount > specific quantities or amounts > quantity scooped, thrown, lifted, etc. lifta1400 casta1475 draught1740 pouring1768 draw1830 scoop1832 pour1899 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in curve > propelling or taking by scooping movement scoop1851 1745 E. Young Consolation 47 Excavated Grots..Yawning wide From Nature's Structure, or the Scoop of Time. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. iii. 34 Nine scoops of water in the hollow of the hand, from a sycamore spring.., will break an ague. 1851 W. Bolland Cricket Notes 13 That runs were obtained more readily..by off hitting than by the old scoop to leg. 1908 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 396 He makes wild scoops at the fighting fish. b. Music. = portamento n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > portamento portamento1771 slide1818 scoop1911 1911 W. K. Smith Training Village Choirs 8 The scoop is made on the commencing note of a tune or phrase. It consists in attacking it by way of a chromatic slide from the ‘fourth’ below. 1967 A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. i. 64 The sundry ways the folk singer has of passing from note to note by means of scoops, slides, hovers and such. 1975 Gramophone Aug. 316/1 He pulls the Rosamunde ‘Entr'acte’ about horribly and there are all sorts of period scoops that modern listeners will find intolerable. 1977 Early Music 5 343/2 Special techniques and playing styles that can be developed are..‘scoops’ on a note, e.g. D–C♯–D completely slurred and glided simply by relaxing the breath pressure and increasing it again, keeping the fingering for the upper note held all the time. 2. concrete. a. A place scooped or hollowed out; also, a natural concavity or hollow resembling this; rarely, an artificial basin for water. Also scoop-out. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] dalea800 piteOE dike847 hollowc897 hole946 seathc950 delfOE hollc1050 ditchc1275 lakec1320 holetc1380 slacka1500 dell1531 vault1535 pit-hole1583 delve1590 lough1672 sinusa1676 gap1696 self-lough1700 scoop1780 cup1819 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > for fluid > sunk or indented sump1680 well1848 scoop1871 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. vii. 138 He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted the beauty of the gentle swell, or concave scoop. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel l. 115 Here a knoll and there a scoop. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona in Poems xxviii The conduits round the gardens sing And meet in scoops of milk-white stone. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. ii. 21 All foot and horse tracks made previous to the storm had been abraded and blurred by the drops, and they were now so many little scoops of water. 1884 Milit. Engineering ii. 33 Most of the pieces would be fired through countersloping scoops. 1900 Daily News 1 June 3/1 Lying in a shallow scoop-out among the hills. b. Film and Television. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > lights sun arc1889 sunlight1928 photoflood1933 scoop1940 sun gun1960 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 747/2 Scoop, one or more suspended broadsides, which are special types of incandescent flood-lights for use in motion-picture studios. 1974 Some Techn. Terms & Slang (Granada Television) Scoop, 500 watt lamp suspended from studio ceiling. 3. In various slang uses. a. on the scoop, ‘on the drink, or a round of dissipation’ (Farmer). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adverb] > on a drinking bout on (also upon) the spree1847 on a spree1847 on the booze1850 on the scoop1871 on the beer1887 on the bash1901 on a whizzer1910 on the piss1929 1871 F. C. Burnand More Happy Thoughts xxxiv. 248 ‘Both the nautical Cockalorums have been going on the scoop, and are slightly moppy.’ By which we understand him to mean, that the two naval officers have had as much as is bad for them. 1884 Graphic 30 Aug. 223/2 A young stockbroker..who, in the absence of his wife, has gone on the scoop with his father-in-law. a1893 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 47 An English Milord on the scoop carn't be equalled at blueing a quid. b. Originally U.S. (See quots. 1886¹, 1906.) Cf. scoop v.¹ 5b. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > item > news item > exclusive beat1873 scoop1874 exclusive1901 1874 Macomb (Illinois) Eagle 23 Nov. 1/2 Owing to a slight misunderstanding, the Sentinel found itself without a copy of the decision, and for a time a terrible scoop seemed imminent. 1886 Phonetic Jrnl. 6 Feb. 63/1 In American newspaper offices an item of news is valued largely according to the likelihood of its being an exclusive piece of information, or a ‘scoop’. 1886 Phonetic Jrnl. 6 Feb. 63/2 ‘Has the Herald got that water-pipe contract paragraph in its City Hall column?’ ‘No,’ answers the Tribune city editor,..‘It's a scoop’. 1892 W. D. Howells Mercy 113 ‘Any scoops?’ asked Pinney, warily—‘Anything exclusive?’ 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 29 Dec. 487/3 Is there one of us..who would not..conceal one [sc. a reporter] of his own in the shrubbery..so as to get ‘a scoop’ on his contemporaries? 1906 Daily Chron. 29 Jan. 4/6 The feat escaped the notice of the representatives of all other newspapers; so the item is what in Fleet-street language is styled an ‘exclusive’ or ‘scoop’. 1913 E. Pound Let. Mar. (1971) 16 It's our second scoop, for I only found the man [sc. Robert Frost] by accident and I think I've about the only copy of the book that has left the shop. 1917 G. K. Chesterton Short Hist. Eng. xiv. 181 One of these scares and scoops (not to add the less technical name of lies) was the Popish Plot. 1920 Times 25 Oct. 15/3 The edition would have been on the streets..leaving the heartbroken editor to bewail the death of his great ‘scoop’. 1930 ‘Sapper’ Finger of Fate 127 The first thing to do was to get on the 'phone to his editor, because he had intended returning to London that night. He knew there would be no difficulty—especially if he gave a hint over the wire that he was on a scoop. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xvii. 283 The newspapers paid well for ‘beats’, as ‘scoops’ were now called. 1969 S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xvii. 152 I have a beat for you... That is the right word, beat? They stopped using scoop in the movies in the thirties. 1973 D. Barnes See the Woman 75 We've got some scoop that our outstanding suspect is holed up in the Rocket Motel. c. U.S. ‘A sudden breaking down of prices for the purpose of buying stocks at cheaper rates followed by a rise’. ΚΠ 1879 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl.; and in later Dicts. d. A lucky stroke of business, a ‘haul’. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired > lucky or valuable haul1776 scoop1893 1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 166 You'll see how I work a big scoop when I get it. 1909 Daily Chron. 27 July 1/6 Her engagement..at the Palace is a big ‘scoop’. Compounds scoop neck n. a rounded, low-cut neck on a garment; also (with hyphen) attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering or next to neck > neck-line > types of décolletage1894 décolletée1907 V-neck1910 boat neckline1921 boat neck1922 bateau line1923 halter neck(line)1935 jewel neckline1935 crew neckline1939 jewel neck1940 plunging neckline1940 plunge neckline1941 scoop neck1953 scooped neckline1956 sabrina neckline1959 sweetheart neck1965 1953 New Yorker 20 June 64/2 At Rosette Pennington, 20 East 56th Street, there's a cool little sleeveless black cotton dress with a scoop neck and a full, flounced skirt. 1956 New Yorker 28 Jan. 68/3 There are short beach coats and scoop-neck dresses, all of the same material. 1972 Vogue Jan. 22 Bell sleeves, scoop neck, pintucks on jacket. 1978 Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. d14 (advt.) The tab-closing jacket with a skirt and scoop-neck shell in pink or beige. scoop-necked adj. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > neckline decolouredc1430 high1590 low-cuta1600 low1818 low-necked1830 low-neck1858 décolleté1884 semi-high1905 boat-shaped1921 turtle-necked1931 crew neck1940 polo-collared1946 polo-necked1948 plunge-line1949 plunge-necked1949 crew-necked1950 plunge neck1951 scoop-necked1955 bateau-necked1959 1955 New Yorker 17 Sept. 96/1 De Pinna has acquired another sleeveless, scoop-necked Trigère dress. 1977 Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 15/4 The scoop-necked three-quarter mohair-knit coat over scooped-necked long-torso fine-knit sweater. scoop neckline n. = scoop neck n. ΚΠ 1959 Times 21 Sept. 12/4 A gown of deep cream satin with a fitting bodice, a scoop neckline, and a full skirt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scoopv.¹ Brit. /skuːp/, U.S. /skup/ Forms: Also Middle English scope, Middle English, 1500s scoupe. Etymology: < scoop n.¹ 1. transitive. To lade or bail out (water) with or as with a ‘scoop’. Also with out. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > bail scoopc1330 lade1340 empt1555 free1612 bail1614 bale1692 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8164 Do scope þis water, & turn þe borne. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 155 Scopen out þe scaþel water. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 65 Ȝow nedyth..to scopyn out þis corrupte watyr of curs, wyth þe scoope of penauns. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 2 Vnder þis watyr in ȝoure pytt, whan þe watyr is scopyd out, is deep wose be-nethe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 699/2 Let us scoupe out the water out of this ponde. a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnnnn2/1 Tis as easie with a Sive to scoope the Ocean, as To tame Petruchio. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 465 He scoop'd the Water from the Crystal Flood. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 282 The Waves seemed to redouble their violence, for the Boat scooped one fairly over us. absolute.c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 66 Þe scope of þi penaunce..muste be deep in sorwe,..& ellys þou scopyst in veyn. 2. a. To remove or detach (a portion of friable or soft material, or part of a heap of objects) by passing a scoop or concave instrument obliquely through the mass, so as to leave a rounded hollow; to rake in as with a scoop. Chiefly with away, out, up. Also, to take out (a core, some embedded object) with or as with a scoop. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > with a scoop scoop1622 the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > with a scoop > as with a scoop scoop1718 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 135 There are some kinde of people so cruell and vnconscionable, that they thinke of nothing but deceit and cozenage, scooping like shouels all to themselues. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) ii. x. §5 71 Her Forefeet are broad, that she may scoup away much Earth at a time. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 578 Full in his Eye the Weapon chanc'd to fall, And from the Fibres scoop'd the rooted Ball. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiv. 134 With a small Scoope very carefully take off the Eye [of the Codling] as whole as you can, and scoope out the Core. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 161 It was plainly formed by scooping the earth from the sides. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 164 The Indians..scoop them [sc. fish] up with small nets. 1867 W. D. Howells Ital. Journeys iii. 16 The name of Byron..had been scooped away by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Last Confession in Poems 546 She..fell, and her stiff bodice scooped the sand Into her bosom. absolute.1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 393 Whatever part of the Harbour they scoop in, it has an Influence on all the rest, for the Sea immediately works the whole Bottom to a Level. b. To heap up, or collect together as by means of a scoop; figurative to obtain by effort from various quarters. ΚΠ 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 503 The government, instead of laboriously scooping up supplies from numerous petty sources, could now draw whatever it required from an immense reservoir. c. U.S. To take (oysters) with a dredge. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1891 in Cent. Dict. 3. a. transitive. To hollow out with or as with a scoop; to form a concavity or depression in. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave > (as) by scooping scoop1708 1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 396 The little Race of Birds, that hop from Spray to Spray, scooping the costliest Fruit. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 50. ¶3 As soon as this Rock was thus curiously scooped to their Liking. 1726 Whole Art & Myst. of Mod. Gaming 31 Such as Quatre-Trois..are made new by the Die-maker..whereas Loaded Dice are easy to Scoop or Load. 1731 A. Pope Epist. to Earl of Burlington 7 Consult the Genius of the Place in all, That..scoops in circling Theatres the Vale. 1801 J. Mollard Art of Cookery 127 Take clean turnips and carrots, and scoop or cut them into shapes. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe ii. 87 The rocks below having been scooped out by the glacier in old days. 1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan II. 84 The posts are scooped at the top, and heavy poles, resting on the scoops, are laid along them. b. intransitive. To make a hollow as with a scoop. (In quot. 1863 in indirect passive.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (intransitive)] > curve concavely > make a hollow scoop1863 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 189 A pitch black rock, scooped into by the stream. 4. To form by scooping or as if by scooping. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave > (as) by scooping > form (as) by scooping scoop1730 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 161 These..The mountain-cisterns fill, those grand reserves Of water, scoop'd among the hollow rocks. c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xx. 10 See the wild Sons of Lapland's chill domain, That scoop their Couch beneath the drifted Snows! 1765 O. Goldsmith Traveller (ed. 2) 15 The firm connected bulwark [sc. the dikes of Holland]..Spreads its long arms amidst the watry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. 1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 72 Scoop'd from the woods unnumber'd spots were seen Embrown'd with culture. 1816 Ld. Byron Prisoner of Chillon vii He died, and they..scoop'd for him a shallow grave. 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies xlix, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 25 Sometimes we scoop the squirrel's hollow cell. 1841 B. Hall Patchwork I. vii. 107 Vaults scooped out by the running water. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine i. 60 One of us scooped out a horse, more complete than any of these sculptured animals, in ten minutes. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xviii. 484 The path was scooped out to a depth of four feet like a miniature railway cutting. 5. slang. a. To take or take up in large quantities; to appropriate (something) in advance of or to the exclusion of other competitors. Chiefly to scoop in (or up). Also in various extended uses; esp. to defeat, destroy, get the better of. to scoop the kitty (or pool), in Gambling, to win all the money that is staked; also transferred, to gain everything, to be completely successful. In some uses difficult to distinguish from sense 6. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] overcomeeOE forecomec1000 overwieldlOE masterc1225 overmaistrie1340 overmatcha1375 overpassa1382 surmount1390 to have the fairer (of)c1400 maistriec1400 overmasterc1425 winc1440 overc1485 bestride1526 rixlec1540 overreach1555 control1567 overmate1567 govern1593 to give (a person) the lurch1598 get1600 to gain cope of1614 top1633 to fetch overa1640 down1641 to have the whip hand (of)1680 carberry1692 to cut down1713 to be more than a match for1762 outflank1773 outmaster1799 outgeneral1831 weather1834 best1839 fore-reach1845 to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849 scoop1850 euchrec1866 bemaster1871 negotiate1888 to do down1900 to get (someone) wetc1926 lick1946 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > (as) with a shovel or scoop skim1665 shovel1685 bale1692 scoop1850 the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate > in large quantities gobble1825 scoop1850 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > all to sweep the board1882 to scoop the kitty (or pool)1916 1850 W. Colton Three Years in Calif. xxxiii. 440 A faith that could scoop up whole tribes of savages,..impressing them with the conviction that submission to the padres was obedience to God. 1866 Harper's Mag. Oct. 680/1 Tell him he'll have to send this other fellow some more beans, for I've got him scooped [at draw-poker]. 1867 A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi xi. 134 ‘Scooped’ was an importation from Wall Street. ‘I am badly scooped’ meant [in Kansas]: ‘I am used up’ or ‘defeated’. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 333 ‘It ain't no use. They've scooped him.’ ‘Scooped him?’ ‘Yes—death has.’ 1882 J. D. McCabe New York 160 (Farmer) He runs seventy 'busses on this line, and scoops in three 'r four hundred a day. 1888 W. D. Howells Annie Kilburn xi. 118 The Irish are spreading out into the country and scooping in the farms that are not picturesque enough for the summer folks. 1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 11 They felt it..a..personal defeat that he..should scoop every chance that was going. 1903 A. Bennett Leonora vii. 194 Milly had shown a straight flush and scooped the kitty. 1903 R. Kipling Stellenbosh in Five Nations 195 The Boojers scooped the crowd, To the last survivin' bandolier an' boot. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xxii. 297 We have won any way; and if Peter has had a slice of luck, we've scooped the pool. 1929 H. Maclaren Private Opinions of Brit. Blue-Jacket 100 I haves everey intentuons to make a short spich, as scoops in the old man also a fairly wheard tipe of two passingers. 1929 H. Maclaren Private Opinions of Brit. Blue-Jacket 101 This phrase from ‘scoops in the old man’ is plainly to be interpreted, by any one familiar with the ways of the fo'c'sle, as ‘we have persuaded the captain to come, also two weird passengers’. 1937 H. C. Bailey Clunk's Claimant xlvi. 315 A million to one some side-line of a next of kin would bob up and pinch their share. Josh wouldn't scoop the pool. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime v. 70 There was a bit of unpleasantness at the Ball, and they scooped me in. 1944 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 48 363 De Havilland engines—the Gipsy, Gipsy Six and Gipsy Twelve..—together with the Cirrus, have almost completely ‘scooped the pool’ for light aircraft. 1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned viii. 69 There wasn't a girl..to touch her. She could walk right in and scoop the pool. 1959 Encounter Aug. 37/2 The rest of them were struggling..with razors and stakes... And soon I got scooped into the thing. 1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin ii. 27 You will give your consent to my scooping in the girl I love. 1973 ‘P. Malloch’ Kickback xxv. 164 You've scooped the pool. If you watch your step, you shouldn't have any more worries. 1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 23/9 Radford Swimming Club ended the 1976 season in fine style by scooping all but one award at the Notts. ASA Medley Team Swimming League. 1978 G. Mitchell Mingled with Venom iii. 23 Unless we all take care, that black boy the other lot adopted is going to scoop the pool. b. In journalistic use. (Originally U.S.) To ‘cut out’ a rival reporter or editor, or his paper, by obtaining and publishing exclusive or earlier news. Also with the news as object, and occasionally the person from whom information is derived. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > [verb (transitive)] > report > forestall rivals by scoop1884 1884 Christian World 5 June 421/2 He said he was not going to be scooped out by the other fellow. 1886 Phonetic Jrnl. 6 Feb. 63/1 The ever-gnawing anxiety of the city editor [in America] is to ‘scoop’ the opposition papers. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 38 Miss Jackson across the way has got it, and she's going to print it in to-morrow's paper, and I shall be scooped. 1937 L. Lewis Radio Dict. in Printers' Ink Monthly May 42/1 Scoop, to gainfully outwit a rival network or station in the broadcasting of a special event or public interest program. 1938 E. Waugh Scoop i. v. 88 He told..how Wenlock Jakes, highest paid journalist of the United States, scooped the world with an eye-witness story of the sinking of the Lusitania four hours before she was hit. 1939 R. Campbell Flowering Rifle vi. 143 Then if some British pressman should be handy—From a safe distance, priming him with brandy, To scoop their story in his red receivers. 1948 G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop v. 88 The Voice must scoop you when you retire from Scotland Yard. 1968 J. M. Ziman Public Knowl. v. 98 Many scientists are so obsessed with the fear of being ‘scooped’..that they issue a long succession of scrappy communications instead of waiting until the work is complete. 1974 Times 17 Apr. 16/7 The Israeli press..is sometimes scooped by the foreign press... The scooping..often results from ministerial indiscretions overseas. 1978 G. McDonald Fletch's Fortune vi. 49 Do you realize what it would be worth to a person's career to scoop the murder?..A handful of Pulitzer Prizes. c. intransitive. Of a right whale: To feed by taking in large mouthfuls of brit. U.S. ΚΠ 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 264 Again the whale may be ‘scooping’ or feeding. 6. To propel or to take by or as by a scooping movement. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by scooping movement scoop1867 the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp > quickly or suddenly > snatch up latcha1225 plitcha1400 snap1550 snatch1555 click1651 snack1871 scoop1916 snarf1968 1867 Australasian 19 Jan. 76/3 Davis scooped a slow to Dan Wilkie, who..held it. 1882 Sat. Rev. 2 Sept. 313/1 The last comer scooped his first ball round to leg for 2. 1886 F. R. Stockton Casting away Mrs. Lecks & Mrs. Aleshine 50 I'll never leave this place if I have to scoop myself out to sea with an oar. 1910 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 269/1 A very dark-coloured little man, with his arms and legs cut off, short at the knees and elbows,..scooping himself along on his stumps. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 257 And he moved as if to scoop the German's head under his arm again. 1960 Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 1/1 Helicopters flew to the rescue of villagers trapped by floods at Hampton Bishop, near Hereford, last night. Forty men, women and children were ‘scooped’ from their cottages as swirling water crept towards their upstairs rooms. 1961 ‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death xiii. 104 ‘I have a dinner date.’ ‘So do I,’ replied Nicolls, hastily scooping up the letter. 1963 G. H. Thomson Crocus Country xix. 127 Mother never allowed anyone to ‘scoop’ the ball, that is, push it ahead with the mallet. 1966 Listener 17 Mar. 384/2 When she moves off, either she scoops the infant up to help him cling to her or else he springs to catch hold of her. 1973 N. Graham Murder in Dark Room ix. 60 The phone rang and I scooped up the receiver and said, ‘Solo Malcolm here.’ 1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance ii. 20 We'd be scooped up as we stepped off the gang~plank. 7. Music. intransitive. To perform a scoop (scoop n.² 1b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique descanta1450 to stay on1579 to run division1590 divide1609 shake1611 flourish1766 tweedle-dee1837 slide1864 Wagnerize1866 to break a chord1879 magadize1904 scoop1927 segue1958 rap1979 rhyme1979 scratch1982 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > reach note by slide from below scoop1927 1927 H. J. Wood Gentle Art of Singing 35 They are very apt to make a slow slur, to connect the notes by scooping and dragging the voice. 1958 A. Jacobs New Dict. Music 333 Scoop, in singing, to glide up to a note disagreeably from below instead of attacking it cleanly. 1975 Gramophone Nov. 846/3 In the thirties Busch was frequently praised because he scooped so rarely; as opposed to Lener who did it all the time. 1977 Gramophone Jan. 1154/2 Both violin and cello scoop heavily from note to note. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † scoopv.² Forms: In 1600s scoup, scoope. Etymology: Compare swoop v. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. Of a bird: To swoop at. Also transitive. To take (something) with a swoop. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > bird of prey > [verb (transitive)] > swoop at or on stoop1575 stoop1575 scoop1605 hawk1825 1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles iii. G Like a Iacke-daw that when he lights vpon A dainty morsell, kaas and makes his brags, And then some kite doth scoope it from him straight. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xlvi. 261/1 Whiles they were measuring out the circuit, an Eagle scouping at the Line, fled with it ouer the Sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹c1330n.²1745v.¹c1330v.²1605
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