scroop

present singular third person scroops · participle present scrooping · participle past scrooped · past scrooped

1. To produce a harsh scraping or grating sound.

   I exclaimed in a loud voice, scrooping back my chair on the brick floor and standing up.

   1937, Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress, London: Faber, page 628 (in The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston )

   1 more example

   The back door, just across the little basement hall, scrooped inwards across the oilcloth, jingling its little bell, and was banged to.

   1916, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater

plural scroops

1. A rustling sound like that produced from friction between silk fibers.