whoopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• hoop, howp

発音

• enPR: wo͞op, hwo͞op, ho͞op, wo͝op, IPA: /wuːp/, /ʍuːp/, /wʊp/, /huːp/
• 韻: -uːp
• Homophone: hoop (for one pronunciation of the noun and the associated intransitive verb)

名詞

whoop (plural whoops)

1. A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

     Mixed with the whoop of the crane and the roar of the grim alligator.

   • 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 30:

     [A] great whoop of victory sounded as finally they carried the fish up the beach.

   • 1991 February 11, Jennifer Justice, “Farewell Lavender Hearts”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 9:

     Lavender Hearts has often been stopped by the presence of some wild woman who just can't contain her whoop or moan. Now that's community!

2. A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
3. A bump on a racetrack.

   Synonym of whoop-de-doo.

   • 2006, Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know, page 104:

     The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad […] and keep the front wheels high […]

   • 2009, Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages, page 184:

     The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.

派生語

動詞

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

1. (intransitive) To make a whoop.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Beggars:

     each whooping with a merry shout

   • 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals:

     When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.

2. (transitive) To shout, to yell.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

3. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:shout

派生語

• whoop it up
• whooping crane
• whooping cough

語源 2

From a traditional African American and Southern US pronunciation of whip.

別の表記

• whup

発音

• enPR: wo͝op, hwo͝op, IPA: /wʊp/, /ʍʊp/

動詞

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

1. (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
2. (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.

派生語

• whoop ass
• open a can of whoop ass

参考

• whoop-whoop
• whoopee
• whoops