scoop
English
Etymology
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”).[1].
Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sko͞op, IPA(key): /skuːp/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːp
Noun
scoop (plural scoops)
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- She kept a scoop in the dog food.
- an ice-cream scoop
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
- I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World:
- "We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report."
- He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
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- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
- Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- 1965, John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea (page 116)
- This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature
- 1977, Fred Hemmings, Surfing: Hawaii's Gift to the World of Sports (page 59)
- [T]he scoop or upward curvature in the front or nose section of a board is designed to keep the board from diving under the surface of the water when the surfer is catching a wave.
- 1965, John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea (page 116)
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
Synonyms
- (tool): scooper
- (amount held by a scoop): scoopful
Derived terms
- apple-scoop
- butter scoop
- cheese-scoop
- ice-cream scoop
- poop scoop
- scoop bonnet
- scoop driver
- scoopful
- scoop neck
- scoop neckline
- scoop-net
- scoop wheel
- scoopy
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Verb
scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped)
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
- 2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
- Their first clear opportunity duly came courtesy of a mistake from Russell Martin, who was hustled off the ball by Bale, but the midfielder scooped his finish well over the top as he bore down on the Norwich goal.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?
Derived terms
- scoop and run
- scooped
- scooper
- scoop in
- scooping
- scoop out
- scoop the kitty
- scoop the pool
- scoop up
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “scoop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
- Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English scoop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skup/
Noun
scoop m (plural scoops)
- scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)
Further reading
- “scoop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English scoop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskup/
- Rhymes: -up
Noun
scoop m (invariable)
- (journalism) scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)
Further reading
scoop (giornalismo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Anagrams
- scopo, scopò