stoup
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /stuːp/
- Rhymes: -uːp
- Homophone: stoop
Etymology 1
From Old Norse staup, from Proto-Germanic *staupo- (whence Old English stēap). See stoop (“a vessel”). More at stop.
Alternative forms
- stoop, stowp
Noun
stoup (plural stoups)
- (obsolete) A bucket. [14th–20th c.]
- (archaic) A mug or drinking vessel. [from 16th c.]
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- Fetch me a stoup of liquor.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 57:
- …we ran up stairs together without speaking, and were instantly in the apartment I had left, where a stoup of wine still stood untasted.
-
- A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church. [from 16th c.]
- Synonym: font
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 26:
- He was seen [...] bathing in the holy water stoup as if he were its single and beholden bird, pushing aside weary French maids and local tradespeople with the impatience of a soul in physical distress.
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
- But, though I liked Morgan well enough, I did not greatly care for his smell, which, incredibly, considering his agnosticism, was not unlike that of stale water in a church stoup.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 810:
- She saw nobody for the moment so that she entered the church formally dipping her fingers in the holy water stoup and signing herself.
Further reading
holy water font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
stoup (third-person singular simple present stoups, present participle stouping, simple past and past participle stouped)
- Obsolete form of stoop.
Anagrams
- POTUS, Toups, USPTO, pouts, putos, spout, tupos, upsot
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈstou̯p]
Noun
stoup f
- genitive plural of stoupa