scooping

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of scoop

noun

1. The process or result of something being scooped.
   I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […] 1853, Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
2. (music) A singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it.