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▪ I. whoop, n.|huːp, hwuːp|
Also 6 whoope, whoup.
[f. whoop int.; cf. hoop n.2]
1. a. An act of whooping; a cry of ‘whoop!’, or a shout or call resembling this; spec. as used in hunting, esp. at the death of the game, or by N. American Indians, etc. as a signal or war-cry (see also war-whoop); occas. the hoot of an owl.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 3 All with one voyce,..with whoopes, whowes and hoobubs, would thrust them out. 1620Quarles Feast for Worms §6 When all thy laughter shall be turn'd to Doole;..Thy whoops of Ioy, to howles of sad lamenting. 1622Fletcher Beggars' Bush v. i, I'll use My wonted whoops, and hollows, as I were A hunting for 'em. 1672Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Rehearsal v. i, Ere a Full-pot of good Ale you can swallow, He's here with a whoop, and gone with a holla. 1675in I. Mather K. Philip's War (1862) 246 They signified their sense of his approach by their whoops or watchwords. a1700in W. King Usef. Trans. Philos. (1709) 44, I must acknowledge my Happiness, who in a Manuscript found the following Verses,..Boys, Boys, come out to play, The Moon doth shine as bright as day; Come with a Whoop, come with a Call, Come with a good will or not at all. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 276, I put up the shrill whoop of friendship. Ibid. 277 Instead of sounding the usual whoop of defiance, I went on slowly. 1808Skurray Bidcombe Hill 9 O'er hedge and ditch we fly, 'Till the loud whoop proclaims the ended chase. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. xi, Something resembling the whoop of the night-owl. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxv, With a joyous whoop the whole cluster took to their heels.
b. The characteristic sonorous inspiration following a fit of coughing in whooping-cough.
Also applied to similar sounds (see quot. 1899).
1873A. Flint Princ. Med. (ed. 4) 240 A long and labored inspiration then takes place, giving rise to a crowing sound evidently due to spasm of the glottis; this is the whoop which enters into the name of the affection. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 239 When the whoop appears his power of communicating the disease begins to decline. 1899Ibid. VII. 452 Occasionally the impediment is aggravated by the occurrence of associated sounds with the stutter, the patient emitting unpleasant little whoops, grunts, or whimpering sounds during his efforts to speak.
c. Slang phrases (orig. and chiefly U.S.): a whoop and a holler (and varr.): a short distance; not to care a whoop (and varr.): not to care one bit; to be indifferent.
[1753C. Gist Jrnl. 27 Dec. (1893) 85 We grew uneasy, and then he said two whoops might be heard to his cabin.] 1815Scott Let. 19 Jan. in Lockhart, We are much nearer neighbours, and within a whoop and a holla. 1904Baltimore American 30 Aug. 6 The voting public as a whole doesn't care a whoop about the question. 1908J. London Let. 27 Oct. (1966) 268, I don't care a whoop in high water whether you get married..or not. 1920E. H. Jones Road to En-Dor (ed. 2) xxvii. 313, I don't believe Enver Pasha cares two whoops whether I've had syphilis or not. 1924Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror vii. 141 ‘It isn't as if she cared a hang about him.’ ‘Doesn't she?’ ‘Not a whoop.’ 1936E. B. White Let. 24 Dec. (1976) 145, I don't give a whoop about dignity. 1951L. Craig Singing Hills 155 They lived in a cabin which Miriam said was three whoops and two hollers away. 1957J. Agee Death in Family ii. x. 157, I wouldn't give a whoop if you got blind drunk, best thing you could do. 1974D. Sears Lark in Clear Air i. 14 A string of hounds..were only a whoop and a bellow behind father.
2. A form of the game of hide-and-seek. Also whoop-hide. (In first quot. allusively.)
1798in Windham Papers (1913) II. 77 He will not now be dodging with the world and playing at whoop with all his friends. 1861C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret ii, I thought they were to have a great game at whoop-hide. 1869Latest News 26 Sept. 16 He was playing at whoop.., and to avoid being discovered by a companion he got upon some new coping, which gave way.
▪ II. whoop, n.2 Motor-cycling and Cycling.|huːp, hwuːp|
[Shortened f. whoop-de-do n.]
A bump or (occas.) dip on an off-road racetrack or rally course.
1982Dirt Bike Rider May–June 30/2 Over some of the notorious Hawkstone whoops it went straight as an arrow. 1984BMX Ann. 1985 21/1 BMX tracks are far from simple. There are..Whoop de doos and Camelbacks... Staggered whoops, drop-offs, Bombholes and Bridges. 1987Motocross Rider June 12/1 The whoops around the back of the track had been made bigger and deeper to almost stadium standards. 1990Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 June 37/5 The whoops were very deep and unpredictable and many riders were sorted right out on the first day.
▪ III. whoop, v.|huːp, hwuːp|
Forms: 4–7 whope, 5 whowpe, 5–6 whoupe, 6 whoup, whooppe, whup, 6–7 whoope, 6– whoop.
[Parallel with whoop int.; cf. hoop v.2]
1. a. intr. To utter a cry of ‘whoop!’ or a loud vocal sound resembling this; to shout, hollo (as in incitement, summons, exultation, defiance, intimidation, or mere excitement).
a1400Parlt. 3 Ages 233 (Text B) And [the falconer] whopis hem [sc. the hawks] to whirry... He wharris & whotes hem & whopes ful lowde. c1450Merlin xi. 168 Whan he com nygh the loges he shette a-nother bolte; and whowped to the kynge Arthur. 1530Palsgr. 781/2, I whoope, I call, je huppe. Ibid., Whooppe a lowde, and thou shalte here hym blowe his horne. 1577Grange Golden Aphrod. G ij b, With lure I play the Faukner kinde, I hallowe, and I whoupe, I shake my fiste, I whistle shrill, but nought will make hir stoupe. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus R iij b, I so sadlie syt whuppinge all the day vnder a hill. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 91 They go no round,..but..one sentinel whopeth vnto another. 1605Drayton Poems Lyr. & Past. Eglog iv. E 3, With that the shepheard whoop'd for ioy. 1655Culpepper, etc. Riverius iii. i. 96 Others cannot hear..except the speakers whoop and hallow in their Ears. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 160 To whoop..for the warriors to come and join him. 1802Wordsw. ‘The Cock is crowing’ 15 The Ploughboy is whooping. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. ix, The hunters..whooping and blowing a mort, or death-note. 1854R. S. Surtees Handley Cr. vii. (1901) I. 57 Then if they killed!—.. How they holloaed! How they whooped! 1883Good Words Aug. 544/1 They are careful to whoop out before ‘letting go’ with their slop-pails or dust-baskets.
b. trans. with obj. of cognate meaning (either a n. or the actual words), or indef. it: To utter with a whoop; to express by whooping.
1576Turberv. Venerie 127 When the harte is kylled, then all the huntesmen..shall blowe a note and whoupe also a deade note. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden F 2 b, I thought to haue cald in a Cooper..and bid him hoope it about,..but then I remembered mee the boyes had whoopt it sufficiently about the streetes. 1727Arbuthnot John Bull iii. viii. 62 The attornies and their clerks..whooping [ed. 1712 hooping] and hollowing, Long live John Bull. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 144 Whooping their revengeful noise. 1840Thackeray Bedford-Row Conspir. ii, Six lawyers' clerks might whoop a tipsy song..but beyond this all was silence. 1865Parkman Huguenots iv. (1875) 44 An Indian chief..ran to meet them, whooping and clamoring welcome.
c. trans. with adv. or advb. phr.: To bring, summon, or urge by or with whooping.
a1400[see 1]. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 63 Iuno..furth from the nauye the Greek foas Dooth whoup. 1610A. Cooke Pope Joan 10 A boy..who should haue whoopt him out of his bed. 1854R. S. Surtees Handley Cr. i, There he stood..with his fox grinning in grim death in one hand..whooping and halloaing..the pack up to him. 1893Conan Doyle Refugees xxviii, The English colonists were whooping on the demons who attacked them.
d. trans. To shout at, hoot (a person).
1690Dryden Don Sebastian ii. i, I shou'd be hiss'd And whoop'd in Hell for that Ingratitude. 1902Essex Weekly News 24 Jan. 2/6 When we charged down on the Boers we shouted and whooped them like redskins.
e. whoop it up (colloq. (orig. U.S.)): to create a disturbance; to keep up an excitement or revel; to act or work in a stirring or rousing way; also, to stir up political enthusiasm; similarly whoop things up.
1884Harper's Mag. LXIX. 472 He whoops it up with the plain people. 1887T. Stevens Around World on Bicycle I. 11 They simply, in the language of the gold fields, ‘turned themselves loose’, ‘made things hum’, and ‘whooped 'em up’ around the bar-room of their village for..three days. 1888Century Mag. May 156 His rival is a prominent politician, with an abundance of party workers to ‘whoop it up’ for him. 1891B. Harte First Family Tasajara i. 8 What did we whoop things up here last spring to elect Kennedy to the legislation [sic] for? 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins iii. 37 You didn't by any chance..whoop it up with those mysterious foreign adventuresses who haunt those parts? 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris ii. 19, I supposed that elsewhere in France there might be as many young enthusiasts whooping it up for De Gaulle. 1954B. Hecht Child of Century iv. 230 Sherwood [Anderson] would be able to whoop it up for me in a half-dozen periodicals which had come to consider his word as artistic law. 1956‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 136 Thousands of trippers whooping it up with pandemonium for most of the night. 1959‘N. Blake’ Widow's Cruise 93 Some premonition seemed to cast its shadow over the revellers, in spite of Mr. Bentinck-Jones's efforts to whoop things up. 1983Listener 8 Sept. 24/2 The broadcasting moguls and their groupies whooped it up in Edinburgh and other select watering holes.
f. whoop up (trans.): to arouse enthusiasm for; to promote or praise with vigour; also, to give a boost to.
1885South Florida Sentinel (Orlando) 5 Aug. 3/3 Whoop up Florida to those Yankees. 1893[see standoff n. 3]. 1904Sun (N.Y.) 8 Sept. 10 The bail was reduced to $10,000, but was whooped up to $15,000 when Larry was re-arrested. 1950Sun (Baltimore) 6 Nov. 3/2 Spokesmen for each party whooped up interest in the outcome. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 6/5 All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. 1976Listener 23 Sept. 375/1 If there was any temptation to whoop the original up into contemporary shape, he resisted it. 1983Listener 14 July 19/2 It somehow won that year's Prix Italia,..which so immensely whooped me up that I galloped down to Venice to collect.
2. intr. To hoot, as an owl. Also trans. as in 1 b, c, d.
1658Willsford Natures Secr. 134 Owls whooping after Sunset, and in the night, foreshews a fair day to ensue. 1677Tate Poems 98 Madge has whoopt me twice from her Ivy-bound Oak. 1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. vii. v, The owlet whoops to the wolf below. 1821Clare Vill. Minstrel II. 33 The owl..whoop'd a ‘good-night’. 1847Tennyson Princess Concl. 110 Bats wheel'd, and owls whoop'd. 1861Fane & Lytton Tannhäuser 52 Let the owl Whoop the high glories of the noon.
3. intr. To utter the ‘whoop’ in whooping-cough: see prec. n. 1 b. Also trans. as in 1 c.
1887R. N. Carey Uncle Max xviii. 144 Whooping-cough,—why, he nearly whooped himself to death. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 242 Young infants whoop seldom.
▪ IV. whoop, int.|huːp, hwuːp|
Also 5 whoppe, 5–6 whope, 6 whoup, whup, 6–7 whop, 7 whoope.
[A natural exclamation consisting of a voiceless w followed by an o or u sound, concluded by closure of the lips. The phonetic significance of some early forms is uncertain.]
An exclamation, or representation of a shout or cry, expressing excitement, surprise, derision, exultation, incitement, etc.
1568Hist. Jacob & Esau i. i. A iij b, Whoup. Nowe a mischief on all mopying fooles for mee. 1589Marprel. Epit. (1843) 53 Whope papist, say the puritans, is that become scripture with you? 1596Harington Apol. Bb 8 b, Sir Raph Horsey, nine. Sir Hugh Portman, ten. Whop, why howe nowe Master K. Shiriffes man? Here is but ten. 1599Cutwode Caltha Poet. clxxx. E 7, The scantlin won, the winners must cry whup, The goale is got, and now the game is vp. 1603Dekker & Chettle Grissil iv. ii. 2128 Whoope whether is my brother basket-maker gone? 1622Massinger & Dekker Virg. Mart. ii. i, Dor. Whisper but to mine eare, and you shall furnish them. Hir. Whisper, nay, Lady, for my part Ile cry whoope. 1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iii. (1876) F j, Whup (Faustulus) all draw ny thee That doe love thee. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 94 Joceline tells, that St. Patrick did..fast..a whole Lent together... Whoop! but St. Aidan, (as Capgrave tells us,) fasted full fifty days. 1691Mrs. D'Anvers Academia 22 Whop Sir, thought I, and what ado's here? 1810Scott Lady of L. vi. v, Yet whoop, Jack! kiss Gillian the quicker. 1820Keats Cap & Bells lxxv, She clapped her hands three times and cried out ‘Whoop’. 1848Dickens Dombey lv, ‘Halloa! whoop! Halloa! Hi!’ Away, at a gallop. 1896H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance iv, Whoop for Freedom and Adventure!
b. Coupled with another interjection or with a vocative in an allusive phrase.
c1450Mankind 600 in Macro Plays 22 Whope! who! Mercy hath brokyn hys neke-kycher a-vows. Ibid. 713. 26 Hay, doog! hay, whoppe! whoo! go yowur wey lyghtly! 1592Nashe Strange Newes F 2 b, And cry kulleloo, kulleloo, with whup hoo, there goes the Ape of Tully. 1593Harvey Pierce's Super. 178 The whoop-hooe of good boyes in London streetes. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden X 2 b, So would hee haue writte Harueys whoope diddle, or the nonsuting, or vncasing of the animaduertiser. 1598R. Bernard tr. Terence, Andria iii. i, Whup, hoida: what, in all hast? 1605Shakes. Lear i. iv. 245 Whoop Iugge I loue thee. 1621B. Jonson Masque Gypsies Wks. (1640) 68 The ballet of Whoope Barnibie. 1634Heywood & Brome Lanc. Witches iv. i. G 2, Whoope, whurre, heres a sturre. 1678Dryden Limberham v. i, Whoop Holiday! our trusty and well-beloved Giles, most welcome! 1688Holme Armoury ii. 176/1 Whoop, Whopoo, is the Shepherds call or cry, to call the Sheep together.
▪ V. whoop(e
see hoop n.1, n.3 Also in comb. † whoopcat, whoophooper [cf. hoopoop s.v. hoopoe] = hoop n.3 1.
1694Motteux Rabelais v. ix. 41 O' my word this is a filthy Whoophooper. Tush, speak softly, said ædituus,..he has a pair of Ears,..What then, return'd Panurge, so hath a Whoopcat. |
