Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ecclesiastical A basin or font for holy water at the entrance of a church.
- n. A drinking vessel, such as a cup or tankard.
- n. Scots A bucket or pail.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See stoop, stoop, stoop.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.
- n. (Eccl.) A basin at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches for containing the holy water with which those who enter, dipping their fingers in it, cross themselves; -- called also
holy-water stoup orholy-water font .
WordNet 3.0
- n. basin for holy water
- n. an archaic drinking vessel
Etymologies
- From Old Norse staup, from Proto-Germanic *staupo- ( > Old English stēap). See stoop a vessel. More at stop. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English stoup, bucket, jar, from Old Norse staup, cup. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If you happen to watch Rachael Ray on the FoodTV Network, you know all about her "stoup" - thinner than a stew, yet thicker than a soup ...”
“Merrill My mother has lots of signature dishes, but one of my favorites is also one of her simplest: she calls it chicken "stoup," because it's a hearty chicken soup with more meat and veggies than broth "Stew" plus "soup" equals "stoup" -- get it?”
“My mother has lots of signature dishes, but one of my favorites is also one of her simplest: she calls it chicken "stoup," because it's a hearty chicken soup with more meat and veggies than broth "Stew" plus "soup" equals "stoup" -- get it?”
“I love to slurp it like a soup/stew or should I say "stoup" a la Rachel Ray!”
“Walking along the lampless streets, at an hour when camps are silent, one is often attracted by the notes of fresh, young voices, where soft lights glow through open casements, or the singers sit under the vine-traceried verandah of a "stoup," accompanying the melody with guitar or banjo.”
“Meanwhile the 'stoup' containing water with which people cross themselves has been shelved, and parishioners have been discouraged from shaking hands.”
“I could watch her all day, whether she's telling anecdotes about her dog, Isaboo, or using ridiculous hybrid words like "stoup" (stew/soup) and”
“_] A stoup is a jug.] [Footnote V. 17: _In youth, when I did love, did love.”
“This soup (stew? dare I quote Rachel Ray and say stoup?) definitely qualifies.”
“There was a small table at the back of the chapel, covered with a linen cloth, bearing the stoup of holy water, and beside it, a Bible and two or three other inspirational works.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stoup’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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A Garnish of Pewter
A list of pewter items and wares gleaned from the literature, or found listed for sale in antique catalogs - from spoons to stills and chamber pots to church cups. A synonym for the larger, heavier...
teapot, porringer, flagon, wine funnel, pepper shaker, broth bowl, basin, candlesticks, tankard, beaker, measure, chalice and 155 more...
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Jugs
aludel, aljofaina, pig, chytra, gallipot, brown-george, coffee-pot, cezve, ibrik, biggin, drip pot, water-jug and 78 more...
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S is for sionnach
shunamitism, snipsnapsnorum, skookum, scabilonian, sacheverell, sandapile, saulie, schnappszahl, sophrosyne, snup, snurl, snurt and 110 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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My Cup Runneth Over
Drinking vessels.
cup, teacup, sippy cup, paper cup, beaker, glass, drinking glass, filigree-glass, wineglass, shot glass, tumbler, deepsinker and 50 more...
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useful and made-up
satisfice, pointee, postfer, pointful, sillynym, uncleftish, worldken, stewp, stoup, outroduction, ecolect, hypophasic and 23 more...
Tweets
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yarb Citation on muskiness. Jun 22, 2008