Groop Definition

noun
2008, Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney, Stepping stones.
Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw.
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Alternative form of group.

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verb

(obsolete) To make a channel or groove; to form grooves.

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Alternative form of group.

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Origin of Groop

  • From Middle English grope, grupe, groupe, from Old English grōp (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *grōpō (“furrow, ditch, trench”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreb-, *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, furrow, scratch”). Cognate with Scots gruip (“gutter, drain, ditch, trench”), North Frisian groop (“pit”), Dutch groep (“a trench, moat”), Swedish grop (“a pit, ditch, hole, hollow”), Old English grēp, grēpe (“land-drain, ditch; furrow; burrow; privy”). More at grip, groove.

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  • Alteration of group. More at group.

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