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Scoops are for raisins.  Shovels are for snow.  I had never heard of ‘scooping’ snow before I moved here.  It’s a Nebraska thing.

I prefer to snow blow my snow. 

Scoops are for ice cream as well. Be a man and shovel the driveway. Do you go to the store to buy a “snow scoop” or a “snow shovel”.  If you’re like most, you bought a shovel, so use that to shovel your driveway if you don’t use a snow blower.

scoop with my shovel I does.

i live in an apartment, so I say “stay inside and have cocoa”.

Snapper power!  Did a four car driveway and two sidewalks in about ten minutes last night.

The difference is the type of contraption you use.  If you’re from a farm family you may scoop or shovel; city folk shovel.  A shovel is basically flat; a scoop is more curved up and has a deep “bowl-like” area to it.

I’m with Beerorkid, it’s “scoop.” I also don’t call my snow removal instrument a shovel, it’s a grain scoop that I use for snow removal.

However, I have recently graduated to a gas powered snow blower.

So now the question is, am I snowblowing the driveway?

No, you are just blowing the driveway

Classy!!! 

I do tend to use “snowblow” as a verb, as in, “I am going to go snowblow the driveway.”

That’s as opposed to “shoveling” which can occur after light dustings.

“Scoops” are for picking up poop in the yard. You hear of “pooper scoopers,” never “poop shovels.”

Often I like to enjoy a coke of the sprite variety while scoovoling the snow.

BOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Now while it’s entertaining that Merriam-Webster’s definition of “scoop” uses the word “shovel,” I think that scoops and scooping refer to hand-held devices and effort, while shovels and shoveling suggest use of leg and back power.  Therefore, I scoop poop and shovel snow. 

Since blowing isn’t my thing :-?, I use a snow thrower on the driveway.  (Although when I bought the snowblower 15 years ago I thought it was strange to say snow thrower.)  I am guilty of “going out to scoop the snow” off the front steps with a shovel though.

I need to shovel to scoop all the BS that’s in here!

You don’t know my dog…

In the farm family from where I come, we called them scoop shovels. Most of us used them to shovel corn and to scoop (the snow from) the sidewalk.