Meaning

3 senses

  1. (dialectal, intransitive)To cry; shout.

  2. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal, intransitive)To roar; make a great noise.

  3. (dialectal, transitive, usually, with up)To make hoarse.

    I am rooped up.

Origin

From Middle English ropen (“to cry out”), from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cr

From Middle English ropen (“to cry out”), from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to call, shout, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). Cognate with Scots roup (“to shout, roar, cry out loudly”), Saterland Frisian roupe (“to call, shout”), Dutch roepen (“to shout, cry out”), German rufen (“to call, cry, shout”), Swedish ropa (“to call, cry out, shout”), Icelandic hrópa (“to cry out”).

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Forms

roops, rooping, rooped, rooped
Base formroop · to roop
3rd person singularroops
Present participlerooping
Past simplerooped
Past participlerooped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyroop
he, she, itroops

Past simpleLesson

all personsrooped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave rooped
he, she, ithas rooped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill roop

Word family

3 related words
Derivedoutrooprooped uproopit

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

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