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Scoup vs Swoop - What's the difference?

scoup | swoop |

Scoup is often a misspelling of swoop.


Scoup has no English definition.

As a verb swoop is

to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.

As a noun swoop is

an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.

scoup

Not English

Scoup has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'scoup':

swap, swop, sheep, sweep, seep, shop, ship, soup, soap, scaup, skip, swoop, scoop, scop, skep, squop, shoop, showup, scup, shep, shup, swaip

swoop

English

Verb

(en-verb) (intransitive)
  • to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive
    • The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
  • to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something
    • The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards.
  • To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
    • A hawk swoops a chicken.
  • To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
  • * Dryden
    • And now at last you came to swoop it all.
  • * Glanvill
    • The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
  • To pass with pomp; to sweep.
    • (Drayton)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward
    • The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard door stood open, she made a swoop .
  • an act of rushedly doing something
    • Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop . – John Webster
  • (music) passing quickly from one note to the next

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