scroop
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Imitative.
Verb[edit]
scroop (third-person singular simple present scroops, present participle scrooping, simple past and past participle scrooped)
- To produce the a harsh scraping, grating sound, as of friction.
- To make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.
- 1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 628 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston ):
- I exclaimed in a loud voice, scrooping back my chair on the brick floor and standing up.
- To produce a rustling sound, like that from friction between silk fibers.
- The friction causes the silk to scroop.
- To make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.
Noun[edit]
scroop (plural scroops)
- A rustling sound like that produced from friction between silk fibers.
References[edit]
- Dictionary.com. Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7). Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scroop (accessed: January 08, 2008).
- Effects of basic weave differences in silk fabric and yarn type variation in satin weave on sound parameters, Textile Research Journal, Jun 2002 by Kim, Chunjeong, Cho, Gilsoo
- Mechanism of Scrooping Sound of Silk, Journal of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan, Vol.23, No. 2 (1977) pp.35-40, Hideo Morooka and Kokichi Furusato