hoop (2), houpen

i. & t. [O. Fr. houper; cf. Goth. hwopjan.] [WHOOP.] A. Intransitive : 1. To utter a loud cry; to whoop, to shout. "And therewithal they shriked and they houped." Chaucer: C. Т., 15,406. 2. To emit a peculiar sound by drawing in the breath, as in the hooping-cough. Chief genera, Upupa and Promerops, from which the family has been sometimes called Promeropide. hoord, v. t. [HOARD.]