▪ I. noop1 north. dial.
(nuːp)
Also 8 knupe, 9 knope.
[Of obscure origin: cf. knout- knotberry and nub-berry.]
The fruit of the Cloudberry, Rubus Chamæmorus. Also attrib.
| a 1800 R. W. Cheviot (1817) 3 The little hills the humble knupes produce. 1843 M. A. Richardson's Borderer's Table-bk., Leg. Div. I. 403 (Cloudberry)—whose orange fruit is locally called ‘noops’. 1859 W. White Northumbld. 355 The shepherds call them knout, or knope-berries. |
▪ II. noop2 Sc. rare—1.
[? Cf. Norw. dial. knōp knuckle, short bone.]
The point of the elbow.
| 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xvii, A'body has a conscience... I think mine's as weel out o' the gate as maist folk's are; and yet it's just like the noop of my elbow, it whiles gets a bit dirl on a corner. |