cloop

English

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kluːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

Interjection

cloop

1. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
   • William Thackeray

     One of the boys frankly informed me there was goose for dinner; and when a cheerful cloop was heard from a neighbouring room, told me that was Pa drawing the corks.

Translations

sound

• Finnish: poksahdus (fi)
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cloop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• colpo-