scoop
pronunciation
How to pronounce scoop in British English:
UK [skuːp]
How to pronounce scoop in American English:
US [skuːp]
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- Noun:
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe
- a large ladle
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- Verb:
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
Word Origin
- scoop
- scoop: [14] Scoop appears to go back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic base *skap- which originally denoted ‘chop or dig out’ (it was later extended metaphorically to ‘form’, and in that sense has given English shape). It had a variant form *skōp-, amongst whose derivatives was West Germanic *skōpō. This evolved into Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schōpe, which was used for the bucket of a dredge, water-wheel, etc, and English borrowed it early in the 14th century. The journalistic sense ‘story’ reported in advance of competitors’ emerged in the USA in the 1870s.=> shape
- scoop (v.)
- mid-14c., "to bail out," from scoop (n.) and from Low German scheppen "to draw water," from Proto-Germanic *skuppon (cognates: Old Saxon skeppian, Dutch scheppen, Old High German scaphan, German schöpfen "to scoop, ladle out"), from PIE root *skeubh- (cognates: Old English sceofl "shovel," Old Saxon skufla; see shove (v.)). In the journalistic sense from 1884. Related: Scooped; scooping.
- scoop (n.)
- early 14c., "utensil for bailing out," from Middle Dutch schope "bucket for bailing water," from West Germanic *skopo (cognates: Middle Low German schope "ladle"), from Proto-Germanic *skop-, from PIE *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape, to hack" (see scabies). Also from Middle Dutch schoepe "a scoop, shovel" (Dutch schop "a spade," related to German Schüppe "a shovel," also "a spade at cards"). Meaning "action of scooping" is from 1742; that of "amount in a scoop" is from 1832. Sense of "a big haul, as if in a scoop net" is from 1893. The journalistic sense of "news published before a rival" is first recorded 1874, American English, from earlier commercial slang verbal sense of "appropriate so as to exclude competitors" (c. 1850).
Example
- 1. As I dumped yet another scoop of detergent into the washing machine recently I philosophized a bit about how laundry gets a bad rap .
- 2. Drummond blogs about cleaning out her closet , buying an organizer for her jewelry , getting a metal ice-cream scoop stuck to her lip .
- 3. The fastest ball sport in the world is jai alai in which a ball is caught and thrown at speeds of around 188 mph using a scoop made of good old-fashioned wicker .
- 4. He happily gives rival reporters the details of his latest scoop .
- 5. Fisherman scoop up oil sludge on the coast of dalian after a pipeline explosion led to china 's largest reported oil spill .