shoop
The fruit of the roseThe fruit of the rose; rosehip.
Meaning
3 senses(Northern England)The fruit of the rose; rosehip.
(humorous, nonstandard)Used as a singular form of sheep: an individual sheep.
(Internet)An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of amateur, petty fauxtography.
Origin
From Middle English schoupe, from Old Norse *hjúpa (“rosehip”), from Proto-Germanic *heupǭFrom Middle English schoupe, from Old Norse *hjúpa (“rosehip”), from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (“haw, hawthorn, thornbush, rosehip”). Cognate with Faroese hjúpa (“rosehip”), Old English hēope (“hip, rosehip”). Doublet of hip.
A deliberate back-formation from sheep on the pattern of nouns which underwent Germanic i-mutation, such as feet from foot, geese from goose, and teeth from tooth; compare the similarly humorously formed meese from moose.
Alteration of shop, a clipping of photoshop (“digitally altered image”).
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Forms
plural: shoops / sheepLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular