Citations:shoop

English citations of shoop

(chiefly jocular, plural: “sheep”) A sheep; singular form of sheep.

• 2001: “A Magee”, alt.fan.british-accent (Google group): Better Living Through Spam, the 13^th day of January at 9:54am

  > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091807549/o/qid=979300168/sr=8-1/026-8769325-3040456
  I thought you were a goat not a shoop.

• 2001: “Rick Lalonde”, alt.security.alarms (Google group): Baaah Humbug, the 28^th day of March at 7:29pm

  The process is quite simple: with the sheep firmly planted in the boots, the shepherd — let’s call him Rumplestiltskin for arguement’s sake — sneaks up behind the sheep (or the singular shoop) and inserts his feet in the boots behind the shoop.
  Now in this position — by this time his coveralls are around his knees — the Rumplestiltskin is in a perfect position to RAM home the hardwired connection.

• 2002: “R H Draney”, alt.usage.english (Google group): Agendae, the 15^th day of January at 7:37am

  > Now, look here. If you’re going to introduce multiple sheep into this thread, the least you could do is call them sheepae.
  > (Pronounced “sheep-eye”?)
  “Sheep” *is* plural… the singular is “shoop” (analogy “feet/foot”, “teeth/tooth”)…

• 2002: “Jared of Europa”, rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Google group): Tailors ahoy!, the 6^th day of November at 6:50pm

  >>> Is there any tailor here who still collects own cloth by sheerinh sheeps or such?
  That’s clearly wrong… like geese is the plural of goose, sheep must be the plural of shoop. No?

• 2005: “John Holmes”, sci.lang (Google group): Chinese-style measure words in English?, the 8^th day of January at 11:55am

  One of my sisters, when she was little, used to use ‘sheep’ only as a plural and ‘shoop’ (‘book’ vowel) as the singular.

• 2009: “TimC”, alt.sysadmin.recovery (Google group): inept customer service, the 21^st day of August at 12:33pm

  If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.