Hooped vs Hooded - What's the difference?
hooped | hooded |
(hoop)
A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
(mostly, in plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline.
* Alexander Pope
A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
(UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
(plural) The game of basketball.
A hoop earring.
(Australia, metonym, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse''.“
To bind or fasten using a hoop.
To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
(dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
(dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
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wearing a hood
covered with a hood
shaped like a hood
(of an animal) having a crest or similar elastic skin in the neck area
(of clothing) fitted with a hood
(hood)
As verbs the difference between hooped and hooded
is that hooped is past tense of hoop while hooded is past tense of hood.As an adjective hooded is
wearing a hood.hooped
English
Verb
(head)hoop
English
(wikipedia hoop)Etymology 1
From (etyl) hoop, hoope, from (etyl) ). More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- the cheese hoop , or cylinder in which the curd is pressed in making cheese
- stiff with hoops , and armed with ribs of whale
- (Halliwell)
hoop”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, ''Australian Words and Their Origins , page 261.
Derived terms
* hula hoop * jump through hoopsVerb
(en verb)- to hoop a barrel or puncheon
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* hooping cough (Webster 1913)Anagrams
*References
hooded
English
Adjective
(head)- A hooded anorak.