stoop
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stuːp/Category:English 1-syllable words#STOOPCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#STOOP
- (US) IPA(key): /stup/Category:English 1-syllable words#STOOPCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#STOOP
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /stʉp/Category:English 1-syllable words#STOOPCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#STOOP
- Rhymes: -uːpCategory:Rhymes:English/uːp#STOOPCategory:Rhymes:English/uːp/1 syllable#STOOP
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#STOOPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#STOOP stoupen, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#STOOPCategory:English terms derived from Old English#STOOP stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#STOOPCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#STOOP *stūpōn, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#STOOPCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#STOOP *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#STOOP *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).
Noun
stoop (plural stoops)Category:English lemmas#STOOPCategory:English nouns#STOOPCategory:English countable nouns#STOOPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STOOPCategory:Pages with entries#STOOPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#STOOP
- A stooping, bent position of the body.
- The old man walked with a stoop.Category:English terms with usage examples#STOOP
- 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- 1819, “Bracebridge Hall”, in Hawking, Washington Irving:
- At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarryCategory:English terms with quotations#STOOP
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Verb
stoop (third-person singular simple present stoops, present participle stooping, simple past and past participle stooped)Category:English lemmas#STOOPCategory:English verbs#STOOPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STOOPCategory:Pages with entries#STOOPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#STOOP
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
- He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.Category:English terms with usage examples#STOOP
- 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in 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.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing 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?Category:English terms with usage examples#STOOP
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#STOOP) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
- the holy eagleCategory:English terms with quotations#STOOP
Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is
More sweet then our blest Fields
- 1882, [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th edition, page 63:
- Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#STOOP) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- to stoop a cask of liquorCategory:English terms with usage examples#STOOP
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#STOOP) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
- The grasse stoops not, she treads on it so lightCategory:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
- Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, […] / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 9:
- Theſe, theſe are Arts, my Prince, / In which your Zama does not ſtoop to Rome.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Riches”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
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Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#STOOPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#STOOP stope, stoupe, from Old NorseCategory:English terms derived from Old Norse#STOOP staup (“dip, well, cup”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#STOOP *staupą, related to the verb *staupijaną (“to steep”). Related to Old English stēap (“drinking vessel, cup, flagon, stoop”).
Noun
stoop (plural stoops)Category:English lemmas#STOOPCategory:English nouns#STOOPCategory:English countable nouns#STOOPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STOOPCategory:Pages with entries#STOOPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#STOOP
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Etymology 3
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Borrowed from DutchCategory:English terms borrowed from Dutch#STOOPCategory:English terms derived from Dutch#STOOP stoep (“platform", "pavement”). Doublet of stoepCategory:English doublets#STOOP. Cognate with step.
Noun
stoop (plural stoops)Category:English lemmas#STOOPCategory:English nouns#STOOPCategory:English countable nouns#STOOPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STOOPCategory:Pages with entries#STOOPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#STOOP
- (architectureCategory:en:Architecture#STOOP, chiefly New YorkCategory:New York English#STOOP, New JerseyCategory:New Jersey English#STOOP, ConnecticutCategory:Connecticut English#STOOP, also CanadaCategory:Canadian English#STOOP) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- 1856, James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony, London, page 110:
- Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- 1905 Carpentry and Building, vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company, page 2
- ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...
- 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
- The guard at the door coughed up blood, and died instantly. Fina was carrying an empty rifle with a sharpened bayonet, and she'd thrust it straight up through his neck, severing the spinal cord. She levered him off the front stoop and into the bushes, then stood up on the tips of her toes to peer through the window in the door.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- (architectureCategory:en:Architecture#STOOP, USCategory:American English#STOOP) The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
- 1902, Gustav Kobbé, Signora: a child of the opera house, page 15:
- A short flight of iron steps leads up to it and a storm door is built over the stoop, forming a little vestibule, and serving to keep out the gusts.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- 1975, Laurraine Goreau, Just Mahalia, Baby: The Mahalia Jackson Story, page 248:
- You better hurry up and get strong, if you going to carry me across the stoop.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- 1997, Peter S. Feibleman, A place without twilight, page 15:
- Holding her breath while she set one foot over the stoop and followed it up into the houseCategory:English terms with quotations#STOOP
- 1999, Nora Gallagher, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith, page 115:
- She grins at me and lifts her walker over the stoop.Category:English terms with quotations#STOOP
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Etymology 4
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#STOOPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#STOOP stoupe, stulpe, from Old NorseCategory:English terms derived from Old Norse#STOOP stólpi (“post, pillar”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#STOOP *stulpô.
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Noun
stoop (plural stoops)Category:English lemmas#STOOPCategory:English nouns#STOOPCategory:English countable nouns#STOOPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STOOPCategory:Pages with entries#STOOPCategory:Pages with 1 entry#STOOP
- (dialectCategory:English dialectal terms#STOOP) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.