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▪ I. scoop, n.1|skup, locally skoup|
Forms: 4–6 scope, Sc. and north. skowp, 5 scowpe, 6 skop(e, scoupe, skoupe, Sc. skwpe, skupe, north. skoppe, 6–7 scoope, 7 skoope, scowp, 7– scoop.
[App. of twofold origin (which is reflected in the diversity of pronunciation): (1) a. MLG. schôpe fem. (whence prob. MSw. skôpa) or MDu. schôpe, schoepe (mod.Du. schoep) vessel for drawing or bailing out water, bucket of a water-wheel, corn-scoop = MHG. schuofe (early mod.G. schufe, mod.HG. dial. schuffe):—W.Ger. *skōpōn-, f. *skōp- ablaut-var. of *skap-, root of *skappjan to draw water (OS. sceppian, LG., Du. scheppen, OHG. scephan, MHG. schepfen, mod.G. schöpfen); (2) MDu. schoppe fem. (mod.Du. schop) = MLG. schuppe shovel (whence mod.G. schüppe):—OTeut. type *skuppōn-, prob. repr. an older *skuƀnó-, f. root *skuƀ-: skeuƀ-: see shove v.
The two words, though etymologically quite distinct, have, owing to their close resemblance in form and sense, been to some extent confused in continental Teut. The senses of both are represented in the Fr. adoption écope (c 1413 escope, mod. dial. escope, escoupe, écoupe) vessel or ladle for bailing out water, large shovel, skimming-dish. It is possible that the word may have come into Eng. through Fr.; but the Fr. word is first found nearly a century later than the Eng., and as the term was in nautical use immediate adoption from Du. or LG. is not improbable.]
1. a. A utensil for bailing out, ladling or skimming liquids; usually in the form of a ladle or a concave shovel with a straight handle. Now chiefly Naut. and dial.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8168 Folk..þat þe water wiþ scopes vp drowe. c1362Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 566 In emendacione unius scope pro aqua evacuanda in quarera, ij d. c1440Jacob's Well x. 65 A scope is deep & hool to resceyue watyr. 1512Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. IV. 454 Item, for vj greit skowpis for the greit schip to cast the watter, iij s. 1594in Archæologia XLVIII. 133 Item one mashefatt,..iij sooes and ij scopes. 1600Surflet Country Farm iii. li. 546 Be furnished of..scoopes of iron, to draw and emptie out the oiles. 1668Charleton Onomast. 96 The long crooked scoop with which Dutch Mariners throw up water to wet their sails. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Coal, Water..is dash'd on with a great Dish or Scoop. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Scoop, a little hollowed piece of wood, employed to throw water out of a boat. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 417 The scoop best adapted to this purpose [i.e. lifting liquid manure] is a small wooden pitcher,..the helve passing through its sides in an oblique direction. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Scoop, a long spoon-shaped piece of wood to throw water, when washing a ship's sides in the morning. 1886Cheshire Gloss., Scope, a bowl with a straight wooden handle fixed to it. Used for baling or skimming... In salt making a scope is a wooden bowl used for skimming the scum from brine.
b. transf. and fig.
c1440Jacob's Well i. 2 Watyrs of cursyng..muste be cast out of ȝoure pytt with a scope of penaunce. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 3 They had neede be large long Spoons (say you) if I come to feed with such whipsters. Let me alone, for my actiuity, at the dish meat, and a long arme, though my scoope be the shorter. 1859Dickens T. Two Cities i. v, Some men kneeled down, and made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped.
c. The bucket of a water-wheel or of a dredging or draining machine. [So Du. schoep.]
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Alcaduz, the scoope in a water wheele. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Scoop (Hydraulic Engineering), the bucket of a dredging-machine. 1888W. H. Wheeler Drainage Fens v. 73 The scoops beat or lift the water from the lower to the upper side.
d. Applied to a mechanical contrivance for drawing water.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Bascule à tirer l'eau..a scoupe to drawe water out of a shallow well. 1851–4Cycl. Useful Arts (ed. Tomlinson 1867) I. 516/2 Mr. W. Fairbairn..has contrived a new form of scoop or alternating trough [for drainage purposes].
2. a. A kind of shovel (varying greatly in size and shape according to its special purpose), used for dipping out or shovelling up and carrying materials of a loose nature; usually an implement of iron, tin, etc. with a short handle and a broad, concave, or curved blade, the part of which next the handle is often covered over to form a receptacle for the material scooped up.
1487Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 63 Shovills..iij dd j, Scopis..j. 1495Ibid. 203 Skoopes for pitche. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 478 His accusations..are throwen together in an heape with full skoupes. 1678Phil. Trans. XII. 1070 Brewers use to keep their Barly..laid about a foot in depth, and so turned over now and then with Scoops. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 549 The charge of coals is most conveniently introduced [into the gas retort] in a tray of sheet iron, made somewhat like a grocer's scoop. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 284 A couple of wooden scoops,..to shovel up the corn in heaps, are useful implements in a corn-barn. 1851–4Cycl. Useful Arts (ed. Tomlinson 1867) I. 739/2 [Gas-making.] Each retort is recharged by means of a long curved tray of sheet-iron,..called a scoop. 1906Daily News 16 Sept. 6 Huge canvas scoops were used to shovel the dried hops into..heaps.
†b. A gunner's ladle = ladle n. 2 a. Obs.
1525Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. V. 258 Skupis for the artalȝere. 1635Phil. Trans. XV. 1092 The Gunners in charging her, wet not at all the scoop, or spunge.
3. An instrument with a spoon-shaped or gouge-shaped blade, used for cutting out a piece from some soft material, or for removing a core or an embedded substance.
a. Applied to various small utensils in domestic use: chiefly short for apple-scoop, cheese-scoop, potato-scoop, for which see the first element.
1747H. Glasse Cookery xiv. 134 With a small Scoope very carefully take off the Eye [of the Codling] as whole as you can, and scoope out the Core. 1774Mrs. Delany Lett. Ser. ii. II. 81, I have not been able to get your silver scoop yet... I could not wait for it, as I thought you might want the fruit. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 612 The eye or root-bud of the potatoe..is usually cut out of it by a scoop..to the thickness of about half a crown.
b. A similar instrument for surgical purposes.
1739Sharp Surg. xviii. 86 It is much safer to..lay hold of it [the Stone] with the Forceps, than endeavour with the Scoop..to force it outwards. 1895Arnold & Son's Catal. Surg. Instruments Index, Acne, aural, gallstone, lithotomy, lupus scoops [etc.].
c. (See quot.)
1862Piesse Perfumery (ed. 3) 254 Balls are cut by hand, with the aid of a little tool called a ‘scoop’, made of brass or ivory, being, in fact, a ring-shaped knife.
d. Applied to certain tools used in excavation of soil; hence, the quantity of earth taken up at once by a scoop. † Also in Gardening, a hollow trowel.
1706London & Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. vi. 254 The Displanting Scoop is made use of to take up some Sorts of Plants with the Earth about them. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 503 The scoop..is then employed to cut under the last narrow spit. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 238 Now take a navigator's scoop, that will measure three and a half inches from edge to edge, taking straight across the front or hollow side. With this instrument commence digging another ditch... After the first few scoops have been taken out of the lower ditch..the covering in should commence. 1881Young Ev. Man his own Mech. §1100 The bottom [of a drain] being made smooth and level by means of the scoop.
†4. A kind of basket. Cf. skep, and MDu. schoepe winnowing-basket (= fan n.1 1 a). Obs.
1546in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. II. 174 A thirde qt. a scope of Olyves cost vjd. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 103 To take the same bushell or scopp that wee measured the corne in. 1673O. Heywood Diaries (1883) III. 204 They let him down in a scoop or basket.
5. A variety of coal-box, somewhat resembling a flour-scoop in shape; short for coal-scoop.
1850in Ogilvie; and in later Dicts.
6. Short for scoop-net.
1865Lubbock Preh. Times xiv. (1869) 513 The fish nets..are of two kinds, the scoop and the seine.
7. attrib. and Comb., as scoop-load, scoop-spade, scoop-tool; scoop-like, scoop-shaped adjs.; scoop bonnet, a woman's bonnet shaped like a scoop; also scoop-shovel bonnet; scoop driver (see quot.); scoop wheel [cf. 1 c], a wheel driven by wind or steam for lifting water.
1846E. W. Farnham Life in Prairie Land 102 Sometimes her *scoop bonnet covered half my field of vision. 1901W. Churchill Crisis i. iv. 40 Her face was in that most seductive of frames, a scoop bonnet of dark green velvet. 1905J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide 30 [Portraits] of ladies in flowered scoop bonnets..gazed down upon him with rigid disapproval. 1941L. I. Wilder Little Town on Prairie xix. 222 She wore a sweeping black gown and a scoop bonnet.
1892Labour Commission Gloss. s.v., The *scoop driver..guides the scoop into the [gas] retort, turns it over, and then brings it back again for filling. 1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. iii. v. 240 A Scoup-like Instrument. 1883F. Day Indian Fish 64 A scoop-like net for catching small fish.
1841Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Oct. 233 A *scoop load may be taken at one tenth of a cubic yard.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 302 The buckets..are..*scoop-shaped.
1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xvii. 154 One was a woman in a slim black dress..and a large *scoop-shovel bonnet.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 601 Any loose soil..should be..taken out by a *scoop spade.
1800Trans. Soc. Arts XVIII. 153 An iron-edged *scoop⁓tool.
1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. l. 90/1, I have always used *scoop-wheels, the float-boards of which dip 5 feet below the water's surface.
▪ II. scoop, n.2|skuːp|
[f. scoop v.1]
1. a. The action or an act of scooping. Also, a quantity scooped up.
1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 910 Excavated grots..yawning wide From Nature's structure, or the scoop of Time. 1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. iii. 34 Nine scoops of water in the hollow of the hand, from a sycamore spring.., will break an ague. 1851W. Bolland Cricket Notes 13 That runs were obtained more readily..by off hitting than by the old scoop to leg. 1908Edin. Rev. Apr. 396 He makes wild scoops at the fighting fish.
b. Mus. = portamento.
1911W. K. Smith Training Village Choirs 8 The scoop is made on the commencing note of a tune or phrase. It consists in attacking it by way of a chromatic slide from the ‘fourth’ below. 1967A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. i. 64 The sundry ways the folk singer has of passing from note to note by means of scoops, slides, hovers and such. 1975Gramophone Aug. 316/1 He pulls the Rosamunde ‘Entr'acte’ about horribly and there are all sorts of period scoops that modern listeners will find intolerable. 1977Early Music July 343/2 Special techniques and playing styles that can be developed are..‘scoops’ on a note, e.g. D–C{sharp}–D completely slurred and glided simply by relaxing the breath pressure and increasing it again, keeping the fingering for the upper note held all the time.
2. concr.
a. A place scooped or hollowed out; also, a natural concavity or hollow resembling this; rarely, an artificial basin for water. Also scoop-out.
1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 289 He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other, tasted the beauty of the gentle swell, or concave scoop. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. l. 115 Here a knoll and there a scoop. 1871Rossetti Poems, Dante at Verona xxviii, The conduits round the gardens sing And meet in scoops of milk-white stone. 1874T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. ii. 21 All foot and horse tracks made previous to the storm had been abraded and blurred by the drops, and they were now so many little scoops of water. 1884Milit. Engineering ii. 33 Most of the pieces would be fired through countersloping scoops. 1900Daily News 1 June 3/1 Lying in a shallow scoop-out among the hills.
b. Film and Television. (See quots.)
1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 747/2 Scoop, one or more suspended broadsides, which are special types of incandescent flood-lights for use in motion-picture studios. 1974Some Technical Terms & Slang (Granada Television), Scoop, 500 watt lamp suspended from studio ceiling.
3. In various slang uses.
a. on the scoop, ‘on the drink, or a round of dissipation’ (Farmer).
1871F. C. Burnand More Happy Thoughts xxxiv. 248 ‘Both the nautical Cockalorums have been going on the scoop, and are slightly moppy.’ By which we understand him to mean, that the two naval officers have had as much as is bad for them. 1884Graphic 30 Aug. 223/2 A young stockbroker..who, in the absence of his wife, has gone on the scoop with his father-in-law. a1893E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 47 An English Milord on the scoop carn't be equalled at blueing a quid.
b. orig. U.S. (See quots. 1886, 1906.) Cf. scoop v.1 5 b. Also transf.
1874Macomb (Illinois) Eagle 23 Nov. 1/2 Owing to a slight misunderstanding, the Sentinel found itself without a copy of the decision, and for a time a terrible scoop seemed imminent. 1886Phonetic Jrnl. 6 Feb. 63/1 In American newspaper offices an item of news is valued largely according to the likelihood of its being an exclusive piece of information, or a ‘scoop’. Ibid. 63/2 ‘Has the Herald got that water-pipe contract paragraph in its City Hall column?’ ‘No,’ answers the Tribune city editor,..‘It's a scoop’. 1892Howells Mercy 113 ‘Any scoops?’ asked Pinney, warily—‘Anything exclusive?’ 1892Nation (N.Y.) 29 Dec. LV. 487/3 Is there one of us..who would not..conceal one [sc. a reporter] of his own in the shrubbery..so as to get ‘a scoop’ on his contemporaries? 1906Daily Chron. 29 Jan. 4/6 The feat escaped the notice of the representatives of all other newspapers; so the item is what in Fleet-street language is styled an ‘exclusive’ or ‘scoop’. 1913E. Pound Let. Mar. (1971) 16 It's our second scoop, for I only found the man [sc. Robert Frost] by accident and I think I've about the only copy of the book that has left the shop. 1917Chesterton Short Hist. Eng. xiv. 181 One of these scares and scoops (not to add the less technical name of lies) was the Popish Plot. 1920Times 25 Oct. 15/3 The edition would have been on the streets..leaving the heartbroken editor to bewail the death of his great ‘scoop’. 1930‘Sapper’ Finger of Fate 127 The first thing to do was to get on the 'phone to his editor, because he had intended returning to London that night. He knew there would be no difficulty—especially if he gave a hint over the wire that he was on a scoop. 1940,1969[see beat n.1 15 c]. 1973D. Barnes See the Woman 75 We've got some scoop that our outstanding suspect is holed up in the Rocket Motel.
c. U.S. ‘A sudden breaking down of prices for the purpose of buying stocks at cheaper rates followed by a rise’.
1879in Webster, Suppl.; and in later Dicts.
d. A lucky stroke of business, a ‘haul’.
1893Kipling Many Invent. 166 You'll see how I work a big scoop when I get it. 1909Daily Chron. 27 July 1/6 Her engagement..at the Palace is a big ‘scoop’.
4. attrib. and Comb., as scoop neck, a rounded, low-cut neck on a garment; also (with hyphen) attrib.; so scoop-necked adj.; scoop neckline = scoop neck.
1953New Yorker 20 June 64/2 At Rosette Pennington, 20 East 56th Street, there's a cool little sleeveless black cotton dress with a scoop neck and a full, flounced skirt. 1956Ibid. 28 Jan. 68/3 There are short beach coats and scoop-neck dresses, all of the same material. 1972Vogue Jan. 22 Bell sleeves, scoop neck, pintucks on jacket. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. d14 (Advt.), The tab-closing jacket with a skirt and scoop-neck shell in pink or beige.
1955New Yorker 17 Sept. 96/1 De Pinna has acquired another sleeveless, scoop-necked Trigère dress. 1977Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 15/4 The scoop-necked three-quarter mohair-knit coat over scooped-necked long-torso fine-knit sweater.
1959Times 21 Sept. 12/4 A gown of deep cream satin with a fitting bodice, a scoop neckline, and a full skirt.
▪ III. scoop, v.1|skuːp|
Also 4–5 scope, 4, 6 scoupe.
[f. scoop n.1]
1. trans. To lade or bail out (water) with or as with a ‘scoop’. Also with out. Now rare.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8164 Do scope þis water, & turn þe borne. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 155 Scopen out þe scaþel water. c1440Jacob's Well i. 2 Vnder þis watyr in ȝoure pytt, whan þis watyr is scopyd out, is deep wose be-nethe. Ibid. x. 65 Ȝow nedyth..to scopyn out þis corrupte watyr of curs wyth þe scoope of penauns. 1530Palsgr. 699/2 Let us scoupe out the water out of this ponde. a1625Fletcher Woman's Prize i. ii, Tis as easie with a Sive to scoope the Ocean, as To tame Petruchio. 1697Dryden æneid ix. 26 He scoop'd the water from the crystal flood. 1773F. Burney Early Diary July (1889) I. 226 The waves seemed to redouble their violence, and the boat scooped one fairly over us.
absol.c1440Jacob's Well x. 66 Þe scope of þi penaunce..muste be deep in sorwe,..& ellys thou scopyst in veyn.
2. a. To remove or detach (a portion of friable or soft material, or part of a heap of objects) by passing a scoop or concave instrument obliquely through the mass, so as to leave a rounded hollow; to rake in as with a scoop. Chiefly with away, out, up. Also, to take out (a core, some embedded object) with or as with a scoop.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 135 There are some kinde of people so cruell and vnconscionable, that they thinke of nothing but deceit and cozenage, scooping like shouels all to themselues. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. x. §5 (1712) 71 Her Forefeet are broad, that she may scoup away much Earth at a time. 1718Pope Iliad xiv. 578 Full in his Eye the Weapon chanc'd to fall, And from the Fibres scoop'd the rooted Ball. 1747[see scoop n.1 3]. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 161 It was plainly formed by scooping the earth from the sides. 1836W. Irving Astoria I. 164 The Indians..scoop them [sc. fish] up with small nets. 1867Howells Ital. Journeys iii. 16 The name of Byron..had been scooped away by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. 1871Rossetti Poems, Last Confession 546 She..fell, and her stiff bodice scooped the sand Into her bosom.
absol.1705Addison Italy, Sienna, etc. 393 Whatever part of the Harbour they scoop in, it has an Influence on all the rest; for the Sea immediately works the whole Bottom to a Level.
b. To heap up, or collect together as by means of a scoop; fig. to obtain by effort from various quarters.
1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 503 The government, instead of laboriously scooping up supplies from numerous petty sources, could now draw whatever it required from an immense reservoir.
c. U.S. To take (oysters) with a dredge. Also intr.
1891in Century Dict.
3. a. trans. To hollow out with or as with a scoop; to form a concavity or depression in. Also with out.
1708Philips Cyder i. 396 The little Race of Birds, that hop from Spray to Spray, scooping the costliest Fruit. 1711Addison Spect. No. 50 ⁋3 As soon as this Rock was thus curiously scooped to their Liking. 1726Whole Art Gaming 31 Such as Quatre-Trois..are made new by the Die-maker..whereas Loaded Dice are easy to Scoop or Load. 1731Pope Ep. Burlington 60 Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That..scoops in circling theatres the Vale. 1801J. Mollard Art of Cookery 127 Take clean turnips and carrots, and scoop or cut them into shapes. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. iii. (1894) 88 The rocks below having been scooped out by the glacier in old days. 1880I. L. Bird Japan II. 84 The posts are scooped at the top, and heavy poles, resting on the scoops, are laid along them.
b. intr. To make a hollow as with a scoop. (In quot. indirect passive.)
1863Baring-Gould Iceland 189 A pitch black rock, scooped into by the stream.
4. To form by scooping or as if by scooping. Also with out.
1730–46Thomson Autumn 740 These..The mountain⁓cisterns fill,—those ample stores Of water, scooped among the hollow rocks. c1750Shenstone Elegy xx. 10 See the wild Sons of Lapland's chill domain, That scoop their Couch beneath the drifted Snows! 1760Goldsm. Trav. 290 The firm connected bulwark [sc. the dikes of Holland]..Spreads its long arms amidst the wat'ry roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore. a1813A. Wilson Foresters Poet. Wks. 217 Scooped from the woods unnumbered spots were seen, Embrowned with culture. 1816Byron Prisoner of Chillon vii, He died, and they..scoop'd for him a shallow grave. 1827Hood Mids. Fairies 433 Sometimes we scoop the squirrel's hollow cell. 1841B. Hall Patchwork I. vii. 107 Vaults scooped out by the running water. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. 60 One of us scooped out a horse, more complete than any of these sculptured animals, in ten minutes. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xviii. 484 The path was scooped out to a depth of four feet like a miniature railway cutting.
5. slang.
a. To take or take up in large quantities; to appropriate (something) in advance of or to the exclusion of other competitors. Chiefly to scoop in (or scoop up). Also in various extended uses; esp. to defeat, destroy, get the better of. Phr. to scoop the kitty (or pool), in Gambling, to win all the money that is staked; also transf., to gain everything, to be completely successful.
In some uses difficult to distinguish from sense 6.
1850W. Colton Three Years in Calif. xxxiii. 440 A faith that could scoop up whole tribes of savages,..impressing them with the conviction that submission to the padres was obedience to God. 1866Harper's Mag. Oct. 680/1 Tell him he'll have to send this other fellow some more beans, for I've got him scooped [at draw-poker]. 1867A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi xi. 134 ‘Scooped’ was an importation from Wall Street. ‘I am badly scooped’ meant [in Kansas]: ‘I am used up’ or ‘defeated’. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 333 ‘It ain't no use. They've scooped him.’ ‘Scooped him?’ ‘Yes—death has.’ 1882J. D. McCabe New York 160 (Farmer) He runs seventy 'busses on this line, and scoops in three 'r four hundred a day. 1888Howells Annie Kilburn xi. 118 The Irish are spreading out into the country and scooping in the farms that are not picturesque enough for the summer folks. 1901G. Douglas House with Green Shutters 11 They felt it..a..personal defeat that he..should scoop every chance that was going. 1903A. Bennett Leonora vii. 194 Milly had shown a straight flush and scooped the kitty. 1903Kipling Stellenbosh in Five Nations 195 The Boojers scooped the crowd, To the last survivin' bandolier an' boot. 1916J. Buchan Greenmantle xxii. 297 We have won any way; and if Peter has had a slice of luck, we've scooped the pool. 1929H. Maclaren Private Opinions of Brit. Blue-Jacket 100, I haves everey intentuons to make a short spich, as scoops in the old man also a fairly wheard tipe of two passingers. Ibid. 101 This phrase from ‘scoops in the old man’ is plainly to be interpreted, by any one familiar with the ways of the fo'c'sle, as ‘we have persuaded the captain to come, also two weird passengers’. 1937H. C. Bailey Clunk's Claimant xlvi. 315 A million to one some side-line of a next of kin would bob up and pinch their share. Josh wouldn't scoop the pool. 1939Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime v. 70 There was a bit of unpleasantness at the Ball, and they scooped me in. 1944Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLVIII. 363 De Havilland engines—the Gipsy, Gipsy Six and Gipsy Twelve..—together with the Cirrus, have almost completely ‘scooped the pool’ for light aircraft. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned viii. 69 There wasn't a girl..to touch her. She could walk right in and scoop the pool. 1959Encounter Aug. 37/2 The rest of them were struggling..with razors and stakes... And soon I got scooped into the thing. 1972Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin ii. 27 You will give your consent to my scooping in the girl I love. 1973‘P. Malloch’ Kickback xxv. 164 You've scooped the pool. If you watch your step, you shouldn't have any more worries. 1976Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 23/9 Radford Swimming Club ended the 1976 season in fine style by scooping all but one award at the Notts. ASA Medley Team Swimming League. 1978G. Mitchell Mingled with Venom iii. 23 Unless we all take care, that black boy the other lot adopted is going to scoop the pool.
b. In journalistic use. (Orig. U.S.) To ‘cut out’ a rival reporter or editor, or his paper, by obtaining and publishing exclusive or earlier news. Also with the news as object, and occas. the person from whom information is derived. Also transf.
1884Christian World 5 June 421/2 He said he was not going to be scooped out by the other fellow. 1886Phonetic Jrnl. 6 Feb. 63/1 The ever-gnawing anxiety of the city editor [in America] is to ‘scoop’ the opposition papers. 1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 38 Miss Jackson across the way has got it, and she's going to print it in to-morrow's paper, and I shall be scooped. 1937Printers' Ink Monthly May 42/1 Scoop, to gainfully outwit a rival network or station in the broadcasting of a special event or public interest program. 1938E. Waugh Scoop i. v. 88 He told..how Wenlock Jakes, highest paid journalist of the United States, scooped the world with an eye-witness story of the sinking of the Lusitania four hours before she was hit. 1939R. Campbell Flowering Rifle vi. 143 Then if some British pressman should be handy—From a safe distance, priming him with brandy, To scoop their story in his red receivers. 1948G. V. Galwey Lift & Drop v. 88 The Voice must scoop you when you retire from Scotland Yard. 1968J. M. Ziman Public Knowledge v. 98 Many scientists are so obsessed with the fear of being ‘scooped’..that they issue a long succession of scrappy communications instead of waiting until the work is complete. 1974Times 17 Apr. 16/7 The Israeli press..is sometimes scooped by the foreign press... The scooping..often results from ministerial indiscretions overseas. 1978G. McDonald Fletch's Fortune vi. 49 Do you realize what it would be worth to a person's career to scoop the murder?..A handful of Pulitzer Prizes.
c. intr. Of a right whale: To feed by taking in large mouthfuls of brit. U.S.
1887Goode, etc. Fish. Industr. U.S. v. II. 264 Again the whale may be ‘scooping’ or feeding.
6. To propel or to take by or as by a scooping movement. Also with up.
1867Australasian 19 Jan. 76/3 Davis scooped a slow to Dan Wilkie, who..held it. 1882Sat. Rev. 2 Sept. 313/1 The last comer scooped his first ball round to leg for 2. 1886F. R. Stockton Casting away of Mrs. Lecks & Mrs. Aleshine 50 I'll never leave this place if I have to scoop myself out to sea with an oar. 1910Blackw. Mag. Feb. 269/1 A very dark-coloured little man, with his arms and legs cut off, short at the knees and elbows,..scooping himself along on his stumps. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 257 And he moved as if to scoop the German's head under his arm again. 1960Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 1/1 Helicopters flew to the rescue of villagers trapped by floods at Hampton Bishop, near Hereford, last night. Forty men, women and children were ‘scooped’ from their cottages as swirling water crept towards their upstairs rooms. 1961‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death xiii. 104 ‘I have a dinner date.’ ‘So do I,’ replied Nicolls, hastily scooping up the letter. 1963G. H. Thomson Crocus Country xix. 127 Mother never allowed anyone to ‘scoop’ the ball, that is, push it ahead with the mallet. 1966Listener 17 Mar. 384/2 When she moves off, either she scoops the infant up to help him cling to her or else he springs to catch hold of her. 1973N. Graham Murder in Dark Room ix. 60 The phone rang and I scooped up the receiver and said, ‘Solo Malcolm here.’ 1978H. Wouk War & Remembrance ii. 20 We'd be scooped up as we stepped off the gang⁓plank.
7. Mus. intr. To perform a scoop (scoop n.2 1 b).
1927H. J. Wood Gentle Art of Singing 35 They are very apt to make a slow slur, to connect the notes by scooping and dragging the voice. 1958A. Jacobs New Dict. Music 333 Scoop, in singing, to glide up to a note disagreeably from below instead of attacking it cleanly. 1975Gramophone Nov. 846/3 In the thirties Busch was frequently praised because he scooped so rarely; as opposed to Lener who did it all the time. 1977Ibid. Jan. 1154/2 Both violin and cello scoop heavily from note to note.
▪ IV. † scoop, v.2 Obs. rare.
In 7 scoup, scoope.
[Cf. swoop v.1]
intr. Of a bird: To swoop at. Also trans. To take (something) with a swoop.
1605Chapman All Fooles iii. G, Like a Iacke-daw that when he lights vpon A dainty morsell, kaas and makes his brags, And then some kite doth scoope it from him straight. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xlvi. §12. 160 Whiles they were measuring out the circuit, an Eagle scouping at the line, flew with it ouer the Sea. |
