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coop
CEFRC1
/kuːp/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A small cage or house where chickens are kept.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
Examples
Beware! The fox is roaming around the chicken coop.
It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken coop for his son.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- /ˈkoʊ.ɑp/
- /kaʊp/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.
More examples
In contextYesterday I went to Denizli and I saw a rooster near the coop.
coop. A (gen., from ca. 1880, a country-town) prison: 1785, Sessions Papers of the Old Bailey, Sept., p. 1111, 'He has been in coop for a week'; […]
'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ri...
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Origin
noun
From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern regional German Kufe f (“cask”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.