[cf. hoopoop s.v. HOOPOE] = HOOP sb.3 1.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. ix. 41. O’ my word this is a filthy Whoophooper. Tush, speak softly, said Ædituus,… he has a pair of Ears… What then, return’d Panurge, so hath a Whoopcat.
