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roop

/ɹuːp/

Rhymes with -uːp

Where it comes from

From Middle English ropen (“to cry out”), from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to call, shout, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Scots roup (“to shout, roar, cry out loudly”), Saterland Frisian roupe (“to call, shout”), Dutch roepen (“to shout, cry out”), German rufen (“to call, cry, shout”), Swedish ropa (“to call, cry out, shout”), Icelandic hrópa (“to cry out”).

verb roops · rooping · rooped · roup

dialectal, intransitive To cry; shout.
Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive To roar; make a great noise.
dialectal, transitive, usually, with up To make hoarse. I am rooped up.

noun roops · roup

Hoarseness.

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@misc{roop_2026,
  title = {roop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/roop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}