cloop
A slightly hollow, percussive sound.
Noun
- A slightly hollow, percussive sound.
- Yet no sooner was she departed than he sorely missed the clatter of her pattens, the cloop of her pails, the noise of her industrious broom sweeping assiduously in passages where there had been no footsteps to carry...
- At the corner of Dover Street there lay a heap of mud and street sweepings, and as we drew up just opposite, blocked by an opposing tide of carriages in Piccadilly, a small, very dapper little gentleman in dress-clothes...
- She began walking away from the open room, toward the teddies, her shoe heels going cloop, cloop. - 2023, Daniel Kraus, chapter 19, in They Set the Fire (The Teddies Saga; 3), New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company,...
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The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
- […] I prefer Sherry to Marsala when I can get it, and the latter was the wine of which I have no doubt I heard the "cloop" just before dinner. - 1846 February 28 – 1847 February 27, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “A...
- He can imitate […] any saw, cock, cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle and guggling of wine into the decanter afterwards, bee buzzing, little boy up a chimney, &c. - 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William...
- One of the boys frankly informed me there was goose for dinner; and when a cheerful cloop was heard from a neighbouring room, told me that was Pa drawing the corks. - 1861 January – 1862 August, W[illiam] M[akepeace]...
Coordinate Terms: pop
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The sound made by the movement of liquid into a hollow space.
- Out of this darkness as if from far away came a strange gurgling and washing of water, intermingled with a sound like cloop—cloop—cloop—such as water often makes when flowing a-whirl out of the bottom of a basin beneath...
- The stream, black and sluggish, scarce appeared to move; the only sound you heard was the faint cloop of the water that the boat in its passage sent washing against the hollowed banks; […] - 1899, A[shley] W[alrond]...
- The water’s own noises, too, were more apparent than by day, its gurglings and ‘cloops’ more unexpected and near at hand; and constantly they started at what seemed a sudden clear call from an actual articulate voice. -...
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The sound made by a horse's hoof hitting a hard surface.
- Holonym: clip-clop
- What is with us mainly a harsh, metallic shriek, a grind of trolley wheels upon trolley tracks, and a wild battering of their polygonized circles upon the rails, is in London the dull, tormented roar of the omnibuses...
- The only sounds are the cloop-cloop of the horses' hoofs in the procession, the roar of the officers' carriages upon the stone streets, and the solemn voices of the imperial heralds, warning the people to make way for...
Synonyms: clop
Origin
Onomatopoeic.
Forms
Noun informal
- A small, seedy bar or nightclub; a dive.
- He had resolved not to segue into the jig he used to do in the "cloops" because his singing was the issue here. - 1999, Alvin Yudkoff, “1940: New York”, in Gene Kelly: A Life of Dance and Dreams, New York, N.Y.: Back...
- This may be a deliberate tie-in to what Gene [Kelly]'s brother Fred [Norbert Kelly] did when they played the "cloops" as teenagers. - 2009, Earl J. Hess, Pratibha A. Dabholkar, “Everything but Dancing”, in Singin’ in...
- Kelly wasn't a singer, but a talented dancer who had also spent many hours in vaudeville houses and after-hours "cloops," learning tap steps from the great vaudevillians and street dancers in order to bring these steps...
Origin
Blend of club + coop.
Forms
Noun computing, engineering
- A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.
- The magic is in the big file called /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, an ISO9660 filesystem image compressed for the cloop device. - 2005 April, Daniel Barlow, “Building Your Own Live CD”, in Don Marti, editor, Linux Journal, number...
- Using cloop technology, you can more than double the amount of software and data you can get on a live CD. - 2006 November, Christopher Negus, “Using the Cloop Driver”, in Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing...
- Load a MyDSL extension (xchat.uci) to check that the cloop driver is working. - 2007 August, Robert Shingledecker, John Andrews, Christopher Negus, “Using a New Kernel for DSL”, in The Official Damn Small Linux Book:...
Origin
Blend of c(ompressed) + loop.
Verb
- To make a cloop (slightly hollow, percussive) sound (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).
- The young men brought up the rear, each with a basket, from which there came ever and anon a cool clooping noise, maddeningly suggestive of refreshing drinks imprisoned within the wicker. - 1872, [Mary Elizabeth]...
- Not even by the lightning flashes could Peter see down the corridor into which the creek thus turned, and ran, and clooped. - 1896, Edward W[illiam] Thomson, “Imprisoned in the Cave”, in Walter Gibbs, the Young Boss and...
- He beat his breast and "clooped" his lips like any aborigine in the agony of "chop" deferred. - 1900, Alfred Kinnear, “When Harcourt Led”, in Our House of Commons: Its Realities and Romance, Edinburgh; London: William...