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Meaning Of Stoop
n.
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the
Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an
out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with
platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above
the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance
stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
n.
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
n.
A post fixed in the earth.
v. i.
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward;
to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to
assume habitually a bent position.
v. i.
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume
a position of humility or subjection.
v. i.
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
v. i.
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to
souse; to swoop.
v. i.
To sink when on the wing; to alight.
v. t.
To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop
the body.
v. t.
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a
cask of liquor.
v. t.
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
v. t.
To degrade.
n.
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward;
inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
n.
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an
act or position of humiliation.