rooped, a. Sc. and north. dial.
Also 7 roopt, 9 roopit, -et, and rouped.
[f. roop n.1]
Hoarse.
| 1677 Nicolson in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1870) IX. 316 Roopt, hoarse with bawling. 1822 Scott Nigel xv, He had something of a catarrh, and spoke as hoarse as a roopit raven. 1881 J. L. Robertson in Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets III. 35 The minister grew hearse and roopit. |