Stooked vs Stooped - What's the difference?
stooked | stooped |
(stook)
A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
* 1958 , (Iris Murdoch), The Bell :
(stoop)
in a bent bodily position, hunched
* {{quote-book
, passage=He still looks wonderfully young, despite his awkward, shuffling, slinking walk, and his stooped shoulders.
, page=121
, title=Beaconsfield: In Society - in Parliament - in Literature
, author=George Makepeace Towle
, publisher=Appleton
, year=1901}}
As verbs the difference between stooked and stooped
is that stooked is (stook) while stooped is (stoop).As an adjective stooped is
in a bent bodily position, hunched.stooked
English
Verb
(head)stook
English
Noun
(en noun)- And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
- The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.
