Whoop vs Bravo - What's the difference?
whoop | bravo |
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.
* , chapter=7
, title= To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
(obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
* (William Shakespeare)
A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
* {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition=
, passage=As for Rochester, he had not genius enough to enter the lists with Dryden, so he fell upon another method of revenge; and meanly hired bravoes to assault him.}}
* , title=Red Eve, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Why should I fight the King of England's bravoes ?" inquired Acour in a languid voice of those who stood about him, a question at which they laughed.}}
* 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, page 104:
A shout of "!"
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Kate Dickinson Sweetser, title=Boys and girls from Thackeray, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There was a roar of bravoes rang through the house; Pen bellowing with the loudest.}}
The letter B in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.
To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=May Agnes Fleming, title=The Baronet's Bride, chapter=, edition=
, passage="And my Sunbeam was bravoed , and encored, and crowned with flowers, was she not?" }}
* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Richard Le Gallienne, title=Young Lives, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses. }}
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As a noun whoop
is an exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.As a verb whoop
is to make a whoop or whoop can be (informal) to beat, to strike.As an interjection bravo is
bravo.whoop
English
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.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.
Synonyms
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* whoop it upEtymology 2
Corruption of whip .Alternative forms
* whupDerived terms
* whoop someone's ass * open a can of whoop assbravo
English
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- Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo ’s rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.
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Synonyms
* (hired soldier) seeInterjection
- Bravo, you have done a brilliant job!
Usage notes
Sometimes the (non-anglicized) Italian female form brava' is used for a woman, and the Italian plural forms '''brave''' (feminine) and ' bravi (masculine or mixed).Synonyms
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