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单词 soop
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soopv.

Brit. /suːp/, U.S. /sup/, Scottish English /sup/
Forms: 1500s swowp-, suowp-, swop-, sowp, 1500s, 1800s soup, 1500s, 1800s– soop, 1800s supe.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse sópa.
Etymology: < Old Norse sópa (Icelandic sópa , Norwegian and Swedish sopa ), for earlier *swópan , related to Old English swápan : see sweep v.
Scottish and northern dialect.
1. transitive. To sweep (a house, etc.).
ΚΠ
?a1500 [see sense 2].
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. iii. iii. 252 The soroufull moderis fell..to þe ground, sowpand þe templis with þare hare.
1538 D. Lindsay Supplic. against Syde Taillis 30 Quhare euer thay go, it may be sene, How kirk and calsay thay soup clene.
17.. A. Ramsay Wyfe of Auchtermuchty x To soup the house he syne began.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vi. 154 They that had their bread to won wi' ae arm..had mair to do than to soop houses.
1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. 44 ‘I soupit the poupit,’ was John's expressive reply.
absolute.1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 136 Let ilka ane soop before their ain door.
2. To remove, clear away, by sweeping.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > clean by brushing or sweeping [verb (transitive)]
swopec1000
sweepa1300
brusha1475
streak1492
soop?a1500
to brush upa1600
besom1791
broom1838
to brush down1839
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > clean by brushing or sweeping [verb (transitive)] > remove (dirt) by brushing or sweeping
sweepa1382
soop?a1500
whisk1626
brush1645
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 76 in Poems (1981) 6 Iowellis ar tint..Vpon the flure, and swopit furth anone.
3. To assist the progress of (a curling-stone) by sweeping the ice in front of it. Also with up.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (transitive)] > sweep
soop1805
sweep1811
1805 G. McIndoe Poems & Songs 56 Supe, supe him up, another says.
a1822 A. Boswell Poet. Wks. (1871) 195 Soop the rink, lads, wide enough, The hog-scores mak', and mak' ilk brough.
1832–53 Whistle-Binkie 3rd Ser. 39 He's weel laid on, soop him up, soop him up.
1884 ‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits from Blinkbonny xiv. 270 Soop weel when I tell ye.
1891 H. Johnston Kilmallie II. 110 The second and third players were ‘sooping up’, or ‘giving heels’ to laggard stones.
1963 Times 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.

Derivatives

ˈsooping n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun]
brushingc1460
sooping?a1500
sweeping?a1500
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > sweeping
sooping1937
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 73 in Poems (1981) 6 To swoping of the hous thay tak na tent.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vi. 164 Wi' their sossings and their soopings.
1937 T. Henderson Lockerbie ix. 57 The ice being keen it required little soopin'.
1976 Alyn & 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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