roop and stoop, advb. phr. Sc. and north. dial. [Of obscure origin; the 18th-c. forms point to ME. ū as in STOOP v.1 Probably this and stout and rout in quot. c. 1375 are corruptions of some rhyming phrase, of which perh. only the first word was significant. Cf. Da. rub og stub (Norw. rubb og stubb, Sw. rubb och stubb) and the Sc. and north. dial. stump and rump in the same sense.] Completely, entirely.
[c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxvii. (Vincencius), 353. Þane gert he his body bere al bare to bestis … til ete hyme bath stout & rout.]
1728. Ramsay, Monk & Miller’s Wife, 184. They snapt her up baith stoup and roup.
c. 1746. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), View Lanc. Dial. (1770), 21. Tum took Care oth’ tother, steawp on reawp.
1816. Scott, Bl. Dwarf, x. We are ruined stoop and roop.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 161. You set yoursel to listen to a no verra bricht discoorse, as if you had taken an oath to devour ’t frae stoop to roop.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge, i. And tipping the wink, we hove him bodily stoop and roop overboard.
