Citations:shoop


 * (chiefly jocular, plural: “sheep”) A sheep; singular form of sheep.
 * 2001: “A Magee”, alt.fan.british-accent (Google group): Better Living Through Spam, the 13th day of January at 9:54am
 * > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091807549/o/qid=979300168/sr=8-1/026-8769325-3040456 I thought you were a goat not a shoop.
 * 2001: “Rick Lalonde”, alt.security.alarms (Google group): Baaah Humbug, the 28th day of March at 7:29pm
 * The process is quite simple: with the sheep firmly planted in the boots, the shepherd — let’s call him Rumplestiltskin for arguement’s sake — sneaks up behind the sheep (or the singular shoop) and inserts his feet in the boots behind the shoop. Now in this position — by this time his coveralls are around his knees — the Rumplestiltskin is in a perfect position to RAM home the hardwired connection.
 * 2002: “R H Draney”, alt.usage.english (Google group): Agendae, the 15th day of January at 7:37am
 * > Now, look here. If you’re going to introduce multiple sheep into this thread, the least you could do is call them sheepae. > (Pronounced “sheep-eye”?) “Sheep” *is* plural… the singular is “shoop” (analogy “feet/foot”, “teeth/tooth”)…
 * 2002: “Jared of Europa”, rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Google group): Tailors ahoy!, the 6th day of November at 6:50pm
 * >>> Is there any tailor here who still collects own cloth by sheerinh sheeps or such? That’s clearly wrong… like geese is the plural of goose, sheep must be the plural of shoop. No?
 * 2005: “John Holmes”, sci.lang (Google group): Chinese-style measure words in English?, the 8th day of January at 11:55am
 * One of my sisters, when she was little, used to use ‘sheep’ only as a plural and ‘shoop’ (‘book’ vowel) as the singular.
 * 2009: “TimC”, alt.sysadmin.recovery (Google group): inept customer service, the 21st day of August at 12:33pm
 * If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.