[f. WHOOP v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb WHOOP. (Cf. HOOPING vbl. sb.2)
1605[?]. Drayton, Poems Lyr. & Past., Man in Moone, I 1. With guilty conscience … That oft they start at whooping of an owle.
1657. G. Thornley, Daphnis & Chloe, 139. The clattering of the Oars, the whooping of the Sea-men.
1842. Tennyson, St. Sim. Styl., 32. The whoopings of the owl.
1854. Dickens, Hard T., II. i. The whooping of boys, the barking of dogs.
