whoo-whoop, who-whoop, int. and n.
(huːˈhuːp)
Also 7 whoo-whup, 8–9 whooup, 9 who-oop, who(o)-hoop.
The shout of huntsmen at the death of the game; hence allusively in phr. to be whoo-whoop with, to be ‘all up with’. Hence whoo-whoop v. (in quot. trans. to kill with a shout of ‘whoo-whoop!’).
| 1611 Cotgr., Forhu, a whoo-whup; or, the call..or whooping of huntsmen at the death of their chace. 1677 N. Cox Gentl. Recr. i. (ed. 2) 81 If a Buck a double, if a Stag a treble Mort blown by one, and then a whole Recheat in Consort by all that have Horns; and that finished, immediately a general Whoo whoop. c 1746 J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) p. xxxv, Yoan be hong'd or some Mischief on then aw'll be whooup with o' efeath! 1798 Sporting Mag. XI. 3 At the very moment of ‘Who! Whoop!’ a view halloo was given by a third. 1812 Ibid. XXXIX. 56 They who-ooped him [sc. a fox] without a hound missing. 1825 Ibid. (N.S.) XV. 257 It will sooner or later be whoo-hoop with us all. 1886 Fores's Sporting Notes III. 155 A loud, clear ‘Who-whoop!’ from Jack, who has, as it were, dropped from the skies just in time to take the cub from the hounds. |