"Scoop" is a word that practically does what it means. Try it. You might exaggerate a little bit just to get the feel of it. Say it with me: "scoop." You feel the mouth rounding out, the lips protruding, very much suggesting what a scoop looks like and does. Once again, slowly: "s-c-oo-p."
To get more refined, you can say the "s" of scoop sort of slides into action like a scoop, the "k" and "p" sounds are hard as the boundaries of a scoop must be to dig and retain its contents, and that "oo" in between is the rounded part of it to help gather and hold things in.
Now something called a "skip" or a "scap" wouldn't hold much. Would it?
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scoop brings to mind ice cream, in particular coffee ice cream
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