CLOOP

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Interjection

cloop

The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.

Anagrams

• colpo-

Source: Wiktionary


Cloop, n. Etym: [An onomatopoeia.]

Definition: The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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