Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sound made when a cork is pulled out of the neck of a bottle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection The sound made when a
cork is forcibly drawn from abottle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even when a loud "cloop" in the dark passageway to the kitchen told that another bottle was being opened as the omelet came in, borne aloft by white-robed Suey, crowned with red poppies and blue blazes, and set triumphantly before the mistress of the feast, Harris could detect no flutter of disapprobation.
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Charles King 1888
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Stair could send a smooth, flat stone skipping from one side to the other of the still bay, which Patsy declared was no sort of sport because hers, though every bit as well thrown as Stair's, invariably plumped to the bottom with a little farewell "cloop" as soon as they encountered the water.
Patsy 1887
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With a quick flinging swerve, they cast themselves to the side of safety and the foot would come loose with the "cloop" of an opening bottle.
Patsy 1887
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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.
The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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It is still best known through literature, from the pages of Henry Williamson's 1920s 'novel Tarka the Otter, or for its fleeting appearances in Wind in the Willows - "a swirl of water and a' cloop! 'and the may-fly was visible no more (and) neither was the otter, "- but now bolder members of the species can even occasionally be seen around town.
River clean-up brings otters back from brink of extinction Stephen Bates 2010
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The brrr-cloop-brrr of a bird in the mimosa branches, a hoe in the garden soil-scritch, scritch-and, somewhere, her mother's voice.
Excerpt: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell 2007
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He can imitate any actor, tragic or comic; any known Parliamentary orator or clergyman; 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, etc.
The Newcomes 2006
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A swirl of water and a ` cloop! 'and the May-fly was visible no more.
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A swirl of water and a ` cloop! 'and the May-fly was visible no more.
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A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more.
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1895
qms commented on the word cloop
The oenophile's tightly knit group
Has formed its own musical troupe.
The bibulous chums,
Indifferent to drums,
Will march to the beat of the cloop.
March 15, 2017