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Definition of Cloop
1. n. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
Definition of Cloop
1. Interjection. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloop
1. the sound of a cork leaving a bottle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloop
Literary usage of Cloop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vistas in Sicily by Arthur Stanley Riggs (1912)
"You will know soon enough when they are — cloop ! cloop ! cloop ! go the hoofs
under your windows long before you have thought of breakfast. ..."
2. Ein Mittelenglisches Medizinbuch by Fritz Heinrich (1896)
"... El F aboue for to 22 BII f cloop~ ... /•him aboue El f aboue ligge to iij F
cloop — aboue]clout abone alle ..."
3. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"As she was speaking I heard a sort of cloop, by which well-known sound I was
aware that somebody was opening a bottle of wine, and Ponto entered, ..."
4. The Art of the Short Story by Carl Henry Grabo (1913)
"... and touch the reader more intimately—the sound of wind in the trees, or of
running water, the wooden cloop-cloop of horses' feet upon the pavement, ..."
5. Specimens of Prose Composition by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough (1907)
"... of the omnibuses and the incessant cloop-cloop of the cab- horses' hoofs.
Between the two sorts of noise there is little choice for one who abhors both. ..."
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