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Cloop

Cloop

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Noun.
[An onomatopœia.]
The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
“The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle.”
Thackeray.

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cloop

cloop

English

Interjection

cloop

  1. The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.
    • William Thackeray
      One of the boys frankly informed me there was goose for dinner; and when a cheerful cloop was heard from a neighbouring room, told me that was Pa drawing the corks.

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