roup

• IPA^(key): /ɹuːp/

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• Rhymes: -uːp

A variant of roop.

roup (third-person singular simple present roups, present participle rouping, simple past and past participle rouped)

1. To cry or shout.
2. (Scotland) To sell by auction.
   • 1791, William Orem, A Description of the Chanonry in Old Aberdeen:

     During the space of his tack he had plentiful crops of corn upon it, and when his tacks were run ont, the town took it into their own hands, and rouped it annually

roup (plural roups)

1. An outcry.
2. (Scotland) A sale of goods by auction.

• roup sale

Uncertain.

roup (uncountable)

1. An infectious disease of poultry caused by Trichomonas gallinae.

• (pigeon) canker
• (falconry) frounce
• (avian) trichomoniasis

• pour, puro

Cognate with Polish rup (“pinworm”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈrou̯p]

roup m anim

1. pinworm

   roup lidský ― human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)

roup m inan

1. (in the plural) foolishness, caprice

• “roup”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “roup”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “roup”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025