hoop

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English [edit]

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Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (mound, raised land", in combination, also "circular object), from Proto-Germanic *hōpan (bend, bow, arch) (compare Dutch hoep), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (to bend) (compare Lithuanian kabė (hook), Old Church Slavic  (kǫpŭ, hill, island)). More at camp.

Noun [edit]

hoop (plural hoops)

  1. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  2. (plural) The game of basketball.
  3. A hoop earring.
  4. (Australia, metonymically, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.[1]
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Verb [edit]

hoop (third-person singular simple present hoops, present participle hooping, simple past and past participle hooped)

  1. To fasten using a hoop.
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Etymology 2 [edit]

Noun [edit]

hoop (plural hoops)

  1. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  2. The hoopoe.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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References [edit]

  1. ^ hoop”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian Words and Their Origins, page 261.

Afrikaans [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Noun [edit]

hoop (plural hopediminutive hopiediminutive plural hopies)

  1. heap
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Etymology 2 [edit]

Dutch hopen

Noun [edit]

hoop (uncountable)

  1. hope

Verb [edit]

hoop (past participle gehoop)

  1. to hope

Dutch [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle Dutch hope, from Old Dutch *hopa, from the verb hopon (modern Dutch hopen). Cognate with English hope.

Noun [edit]

hoop f (uncountable)

  1. A hope, aspiration, wish
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Verb [edit]

hoop

  1. first-person singular present indicative of hopen
  2. imperative of hopen

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Middle Dutch hoop, from Old Dutch *hōp, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz. Cognate with English heap.

Noun [edit]

hoop m (plural hopen, diminutive hoopje)

  1. A pile, heap, stack
  2. (figuratively) A lot, heaps
    Dat zijn weer een hoop slechte cijfers, dus je krijgt een hoop striemen!
    That's another bunch of lousy grades, so you get a load of lashes!
  3. A pile of manure, faeces
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