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Whoop vs Whoos - What's the difference?

whoop | whoos |

As verbs the difference between whoop and whoos

is that whoop is to make a whoop or whoop can be (informal) to beat, to strike while whoos is (whoo).

As a noun whoop

is an exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.

whoop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) whopen, whowpen, howpen, , see (l).

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
  • A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
  • A bump on a racetrack.
  • * 2006 , Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know (page 104)
    • The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad
  • * 2009 , Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages (page 184)
    • The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.
  • A bird, the hoopoe.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a whoop.
  • * (William Wordsworth)
    • each whooping with a merry shout
  • * W. Browne
    • When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
  • To shout, to yell.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= 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.}}
  • To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
  • (obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * whoop it up

    Etymology 2

    Corruption of whip .

    Alternative forms

    * whup

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To beat, to strike.
  • (informal) To defeat thoroughly.
    • Derived terms
    * whoop someone's ass * open a can of whoop ass

    See also

    * whoopee * whoops English heteronyms English onomatopoeias

    whoos

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (whoo)

    • whoo

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • An expression of delight.
  • The wailing cry of a ghost.
  • * 1949 , Robertson Davies, The table talk of Samuel Marchbanks
    • "You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo !" said I, choking back my rage.
  • * 1996 , R A Noonan, Wild ghost chase
    • Then he held up his hands and let out a weak ghost-howl. "Whoo ?" he moaned, in a tiny voice.
  • The cry of an owl

    • Synonyms

    * (expression of delight) wahoo, whoopee, yay, yippee * (cry of an owl) tuwhit tuwhoo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc.
  • * 1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) , Part 6:
  • *:"Upon my honour!" cried he, "there was never before such a beautiful thing in Nature or Art as you look, 'Cousin' Tess ('Cousin' had a faint ring of mockery). I have been watching you from over the wall—sitting like Im-patience on a monument, and pouting up that pretty red mouth to whistling shape, and whooing' and ' whooing , and privately swearing, and never being able to produce a note. Why, you are quite cross because you can't do it."