scoop
要点名,
意味
- (小麦粉・砂糖・アイスクリームなどをすくう)ひしゃく,しゃくし,大さじ;(石炭などすくう)シャベル
- (…を)1回すくう量(動作)《+of+名》
- 《話》(新聞の)特種(とくだね),スクープ
- (…がら)…をくむ,すくう《+out+(up)+名+from(out of)+名》
- 〈穴など〉を掘る,えぐる《+out+名,+名+out》
- 《話》〈他社〉を特種で出し抜く
例文
What's the scoop on your new boyfriend?
新しい彼はどんな人なの？
The film scooped up three awards at the Cannes film festival.
その映画はカンヌ映画祭で三つの賞を獲得した。
He scooped up sand by the handful.
彼は砂を手いっぱいにすくいあげた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel, Japanese スコップ.