Bellow vs Whoop - What's the difference?
bellow | whoop | Synonyms |
To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
* Dryden
To shout in a deep voice.
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An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
A bump on a racetrack.
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A bird, the hoopoe.
To make a whoop.
* (William Wordsworth)
* W. Browne
To shout, to yell.
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, title= To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
(obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
* (William Shakespeare)
Bellow is a synonym of whoop.
As nouns the difference between bellow and whoop
is that bellow is the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise while whoop is an exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.As verbs the difference between bellow and whoop
is that bellow is to make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull while whoop is to make a whoop or whoop can be (informal) to beat, to strike.bellow
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Verb
(en verb)- the bellowing voice of boiling seas
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References
whoop
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) whopen, whowpen, howpen, , see (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)- The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad
- The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.
Verb
(en verb)- each whooping with a merry shout
- When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
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- And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.