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Groop vs Groom - What's the difference?

groop | groom |

As nouns the difference between groop and groom

is that groop is a trench or small ditch or groop can be while groom is a man who is about to become or has recently become part of a married couple short form of bridegroom or groom can be a person who cares for horses.

As verbs the difference between groop and groom

is that groop is (obsolete) to make a channel or groove; to form grooves or groop can be while groom is to attend to one's appearance and clothing.

groop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) grope, grupe, groupe, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trench or small ditch.
  • A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1816 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=James Cleland , title=Annals of Glasgow , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=373 , passage=The groop is one foot six inches wide, six and one-half inches deep at one end … to carry off the urine into a reservoir under the Cowhouse, … }}
  • *2008 , Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones :
    • Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop , sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.
  • A pen for cattle; a byre.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of group. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1828 , year_published=2007 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=William Taylor , title=Historic Survey of German Poetry , chapter= citation , genre=Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel Jun. and Richter , publisher= , isbn= , page=179 , passage=Revival of Fine Literature — Swiss groop of Poets ... }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1834 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Charles Augustus Davis , title=Letters of J. Downing, Major , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Harper & Brothers , isbn= , page=158 , passage=… and laid his Hickory and hat down afore him, and all our folks began to nock noses in little groops here and there; }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1985 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Thomas Beth, Dieter Jungnickel, Hanfried Lenz , title=Design Theory , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=Bibliographisches Institut , isbn=9783411016754 , page=560 , passage=Delete one point x'' and consider as new groops the point sets ''B\{x}'' where ''B'' is any block of D containing ''x . }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Dept. of Combinatorics and Optimization , title=Ars Combinatoria, Volumes 72-73 , chapter= citation , genre=Mathematics , publisher=University of Waterloo , isbn= , page=90 , passage=A groop''' divisible design'' on ''v'' points with '''groop''' size ''g'' and block size ''k'' is called a ''t-GD[k,g,;v]'' if every subset of ''t'' distinct points that contains no two points from the same ' groop is contained in exactly one block. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1810 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor=Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson , author= , title=The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=485 , passage=I GROOPED in thy pocket pretty peate. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1829 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author= , title=The Battle of Navarino: Or the Renegade , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=40 , passage=Grooped around the fires on which they were preparing their provisions, … }}

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    groom

    English

    Etymology 1

    1604, short for . Germanic cognates include Icelandic gumi and Norwegian gume. Cognate to (human) from Proto-Indo-European via Latin homo. Second element reanalyzed as groom , "attendant."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A man who is about to become or has recently become part of a married couple. Short form of bridegroom.
    • Derived terms
    * groomdom * groomhood * groomship * groomzilla * child groom
    Coordinate terms
    * bride * bride-to-be
    Synonyms
    * bridegroom

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) grom, , though uncertain as *gr?an? was used typically of plants; its secondary meaning being "to turn green". Alternate etymology describes Middle English grom, grome'' as an alteration of , etc.), with the Middle Dutch and Old Icelandic cognates following similar variation of their respective forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who cares for horses.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
  • One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.
    • the groom''' of the chamber; the '''groom of the stole
    Synonyms
    * ostler

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attend to one's appearance and clothing.
  • To care for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
  • To prepare someone for election or appointment.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=What a waste
    • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=12 , magazine= citation , passage=India is run by gerontocrats and epigones: grey hairs and groomed heirs.}}
  • To prepare a ski slope for skiers
  • To attempt to gain the trust of a minor or adult with the intention of subjecting them to abusive or exploitative behaviour such as sexual abuse, human trafficking or sexual slavery.
    • Related terms
    * groomed * grooming * bridegroom