cloop
English
Etymology
An onomatopoeia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kluːp/
- Rhymes: -uːp
Interjection
cloop
- The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
- 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Adventures of Philip on His Way through the World; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC:
- One of the boys frankly informed me there was goose for dinner; and when a cheerful cloop was heard from a neighbouring room, told me that was Pa drawing the corks.
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Translations
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cloop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
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