▪ I. shoop north.
(ʃuːp)
Forms: 5 schowpe, 8–9 shoup, showp, 9– shoop. See also choop.
[The forms shoop, choop perh. represent aberrant pronunciations of ON. *hj{uacu}pa (MSw. hiupa, Norw. dial. hjupa, Da. hybe) = OE. héope hip n.2]
The fruit of the rose; = hip n.2
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 338/1 A schowpe, cornum. A schowpe tre, cornus. 1721 MS. Cook Book in Girl's Own Paper (1886) VII. 729 How to Candy Shoups. 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) 95 Shoup, an hep. 1804 Europ. Mag. XLV. 326/2 [Shaped] like a hip or a shoup on a rose-tree. 1878 Cumberld. Gloss., Choop, Shoop, the fruit of the wild rose. |
▪ II. shoop
obs. pa. tense of shape v.