whoop

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 wo͞op

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
    — Mixed with the whoop of the crane and the roar of the grim alligator.
  2. A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
  3. A bump on a racetrack.
    — .
动词 v.
  1. To make a whoop. intransitive
    — each whooping with a merry shout
  2. To beat, to strike. informal,transitive
  3. To shout, to yell. transitive
    — 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.
  4. To defeat thoroughly. informal,transitive
  5. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
  6. To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. obsolete,transitive
    — And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.

词形变化

whoops plural hoop alternative howp alternative whoops present,singular,third-person whooping participle,present whooped participle,past whooped past hoop alternative howp alternative whoops present,singular,third-person whooping participle,present whooped participle,past whooped past whup alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
big whoop millennial whoop war whoop whoop-up whoop it up whooping crane whooping cough whoop ass open a can of whoop ass
相关词
whoop-whoop whoopee whoops

词源

词源 1
From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).
词源 2
From a traditional African American and Southern US pronunciation of whip.
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