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Definition of 'stoop'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with English "step".
Noun
( en-noun)
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
* 1856 James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (London, 1856) page 110
- Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops , with seats, at its door.
* 1905 Carpentry and Building , vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company, page 2
- ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...
The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
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Synonyms
* (small porch) porch, verandah
* (doorstep) step, doorstep
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare (steep).
Verb
( en-verb)
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.
- He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
- Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
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To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
* 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie , 4th ed., p. 63 :
- Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- to stoop a cask of liquor
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
* Chapman
- Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stooped by death; and many left alive.
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
* Dryden
- Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
* Addison
- These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
* Goldsmith
- She stoops to conquer.
* Francis Bacon
- Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
To degrade.
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Synonyms
(bend oneself forwards and downwards)
* bend down
Derived terms
* stoop and roop
Noun
( en-noun)
A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body
- The old man walked with a stoop .
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
- Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
* 1819 , :
- At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry
Derived terms
* stoopy
Etymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl)
Alternative forms
* stoup
Noun
( en-noun)
(dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
Derived terms
* stoup and room
Etymology 4
Old English stope
Alternative forms
* stoup
Noun
( en-noun)
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
* Shakespeare
- Fetch me a stoop of liquor.
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