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Added 9 October 2026

scoop

/skuːp/ noun

In Latin: trulla Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about scoop at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The quantity a scoop will hold.
A hollow concave shape made by removing something.
A news report that is reported first by one news organization.
he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials

verb

Take out or up with or as if with a scoop.
scoop the sugar out of the container
Get the better of.
the goal was to best the competition

Origin

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel, Japanese スコップ.

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