coop
A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animalsA basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
» Tom doesn't like being cooped up in his small office every day.
Том не любит каждый день безвылазно сидеть в тесном офисе.
Meaning
8 sensesA basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
Vogelheim, Hühnerstall
куря́тникkurjátnik, пти́чникptíčnik
ку́рникkúrnyk, пта́шникptášnyk, ко́єцьkójecʹ
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
(figuratively, slang)A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.
(England, Scotland, regional)A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
(England, Scotland, regional)A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
(Scotland)A small heap.
(obsolete)A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
Examples
29 sentencesTom doesn't like being cooped up in his small office every day.
ruТом не любит каждый день безвылазно сидеть в тесном офисе.
I hate being cooped up inside on a beautiful day like this.
Who wants to be cooped up indoors on a nice day like this?
ruКому хочется сидеть взаперти в такой прекрасный день?
Tom built a chicken coop in his backyard.
ruТом построил у себя во дворе курятник.
deTom hat in seinem Garten einen Hühnerstall gebaut.
I can't stand being cooped up in this prison!
ruЯ не могу находиться взаперти в этой тюрьме!
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from MFrom Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern regional German Kufe f (“cask”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.
Possibly from coop, above. Sense 2 may be from English coup (“to tilt, overturn, upset”).
Uncertain; compare English cop (“top, summit (especially of a hill); head”).
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Forms
plural: coopsSynonyms
4 synonyms- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept:cage
- a farm building for housing poultry:chicken coophencoophenhouse