Question About The Adjective "Stooped"And"Looped"?

anonymousI've got a question about the adjective "stooped".I've checked this word in dictionary online and it is said that the meaning of the word is "with the the top half of the body bent forward and down". I'm kind of puzzled about the exact bent part of the body. It's more on back(more like "hunched over") or at the waist(like "bent over")?

Words like these are not very precise. "Stooped" properly applies only to the head and shoulders, but it would be hard to have a stooped posture without bending at the waist a bit. "Hunched" needs a hump, more or less. It is more extreme than "stooped".

anonymousAnd the meaning of the verb "stoop" in merriam-webster shows as belowed↓to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the kneesso, does the adjective form "stooped" also share the same meaning? With bending the knees?

The verb and adjective are not the same. To stoop is to bend down, as when picking something up off the floor or humbling oneself to a monarch. The knees often come into play when you stoop.

anonymousMy second question is about the adjective "looped".

It is better to make separate threads for separate questions.

anonymousDoes "looped" mean the feeling of being drunk? like getting a bit dizzy and lightheaded?

No, it means being drunk regardless of how that feels to you. "I'm looped" is slang for "I'm drunk." I have been unable to discover the origin of the term. The OED calls it "chiefly U.S.", and the first citation is from 1934 in a dictionary of American slang. The date suggests a connection with the aerobatic loop.

anonymousBecause recently I'm reading a book and I’ve seen a sentence in it that goes like this: sb is looped (but this person isn't drinking).So I think "sb is looped" just means "sb is dizzy". Am I right?

What book? Not every person who writes things knows English well enough to do it right, and we all make mistakes. I'd have to see the passage in context to comment further on the writer's use of "looped", which seems wrong to me.

anonymousWords like these are not very precise. "Stooped" properly applies only to the head and shoulders, but it would be hard to have a stooped posture without bending at the waist a bit. "Hunched" needs a hump, more or less. It is more extreme than "stooped".

anonymousThe verb and adjective are not the same. To stoop is to bend down, as when picking something up off the floor or humbling oneself to a monarch. The knees often come into play when you stoop.

Thanks for the thorough explanation! It's very instructive.

anonymousIt is better to make separate threads for separate questions.

OK, I see. sorry about that.

anonymousNo, it means being drunk regardless of how that feels to you. "I'm looped" is slang for "I'm drunk." I have been unable to discover the origin of the term. The OED calls it "chiefly U.S.", and the first citation is from 1934 in a dictionary of American slang. The date suggests a connection with the aerobatic loop.

Actually I've seen this expression in a children's book called Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

In this book the lowercase letters are described as kids. When these kids all climbed on the coconut tree, the tree couldn't afford and fell. Then all the letters(kids) fell out of the tree and got hurt.

The letter m is looped. The picture showed in the book looks like this:

https://forum.wordreference.com/attachments/%E5%95%8A%E5%95%8A%E5%95%8A%E5%95%8A%E5%95%8A-jpg.32882/

If the word "looped" is originated from "the aerobatic loop", could its meaning be like the word "dizzy"? Or it just mean letter m is made like two loops ?

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Thanks for the reply!

Thank you for the thorough explanation!