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Cloop vs Coop - What's the difference?

cloop | coop |

As an interjection cloop

is the sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

As a noun coop is

a pen or enclosure for birds or coop can be .

As a verb coop is

to keep in a coop.

cloop

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
    • (Thackeray)
    (Webster 1913)

    coop

    English

    (wikipedia coop)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pen or enclosure for birds.
  • (slang) jail
  • A barrel or cask for liquor.
    • (Johnson)
  • (Scotland) A cart from boards; a tumbrel.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep in a coop.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
  • * Dryden
    • The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
  • * John Locke
    • The contempt of all other knowledge coops the understanding up within narrow bounds.
  • (obsolete) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
  • * Holland
    • Shaken tubs be new cooped .
    Derived terms
    * coop up

    Etymology 2

    From , by shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
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