▪ I. roop, n.1
(ruːp)
[var. of roup n.3]
Hoarseness; a hoarse sound.
| 1674 Ray N.C. Words 39 A Roop, a Hoarseness. 1788– in northern dial. glossaries (Yks., Northumb.). 1898 Daily News 22 Feb. 3/3 That touch of noble hoarseness..like the roop of the bow on the string of a violoncello. |
▪ II. roop, n.2
in northern and Sc. phrase stoop and roop, completely: see stoop n.
▪ III. roop, v. rare.
[Cf. roop n.1]
intr. To utter a hoarse note or sound.
| 1894 Crockett Love Idylls (1901) 182 A sleepy hen rooped lazily in a hole under the hedge. 1894 ― Raiders (ed. 3) 234, I only rooped like a rough-legged fowl. |
▪ IV. roop(e
obs. ff. rope; variants of roup.