int. and sb. Also 7 whoo-whup, 8–9 whooup, 9 who-oop, who(o)-hoop. The shout of huntsmen at the death of the game; hence allusively in phr. to be whoo-whoop with, to be ‘all up with.’ Hence Whoo-whoop v. (in quot. trans. to kill with a shout of ‘whoo-whoop!’).
1611. Cotgr., Forhu, a whoo-whup; or, the call … or whooping of huntsmen at the death of their chace.
1677. N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat., I. (ed. 2), 81. If a Buck a double, if a Stag a treble Mort blown by one, and then a whole Recheat in Consort by all that have Horns; and that finished, immediately a general Whoo whoop.
c. 1746. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), View Lanc. Dial., Wks. (1862), p. xxxv. Yoan be hong’d or some Mischief on then aw’ll be whooup with o’ efeath!
1798. Sporting Mag., XI. 3. At the very moment of ‘Who! Whoop!’ a view halloo was given by a third. Ibid. (1812), XXXIX. 56. They who-ooped him [sc. a fox] without a hound missing. Ibid. (1825), (N. S.), XV. 257. It will sooner or later be whoo-hoop with us all.
1886. Fores’s Sporting Notes, III. 155. A loud, clear ‘Who-whoop!’ from Jack, who has, as it were, dropped from the skies just in time to take the cub from the hounds.
