stoop
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːp
[edit] Etymology 1
From Dutch stoep (“platform", "pavement”). Cognate with English "step".
[edit] Noun
stoop (plural stoops)
- (US, Canada) A small porch, unroofed platform, or raised veranda leading to a main entrance.
- The workers made a stoop in front of the door.
- (UK) The threshold of one's doorway, a doorstep
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small porch
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Old English stūpian (“to bow, to bend”). Compare steep.
[edit] Verb
stoop (third-person singular simple present stoops, present participle stooping, simple past and past participle stooped)
- To bend oneself, or one's head, forward and downward.
- He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
- 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, BBC:
- Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range.
- To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
- Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th ed., p. 63:
- Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
- 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th ed., p. 63:
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(bend oneself forwards and downwards):
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to lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals
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[edit] Noun
stoop (plural stoops)
- A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section below) position of the body
- The old man walked with a stoop.
- 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [1]
- Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.
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[edit] Etymology 3
From Middle English, from Old Norse stolpe
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[edit] Noun
stoop (plural stoops)
- (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
