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English

Alternative forms

• frolick

Etymology

From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch fr?l?k, from Proto-Germanic *frawal?kaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”).

The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-l?kaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??l?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??l?k/
• Rhymes: -?l?k
• Hyphenation: frol?ic

Adjective

frolic (comparative more frolic, superlative most frolic)

1. (now rare) Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief. [from 1530s]
   • 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro” in Poems, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,^[1]

     The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,

     Zephyr with Aurora playing,

     As he met her once a Maying

     There on Beds of Violets blew,

   • 1682, Edmund Waller, “Of Love” in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons, London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,^[2]

     For women, born to be controul’d,

     Stoop to the forward and the bold,

     Affect the haughty and the proud,

     The gay, the frollick, and the loud.
2. (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

Verb

frolic (third-person singular simple present frolics, present participle frolicking, simple past and past participle frolicked)

1. (intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. [from 1580s]

2. (transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.

Inflection

Derived terms

• rollick

Translations

Noun

frolic (plural frolics)

1. Gaiety; merriment. [from 1610s]
   • 1832-1888, Louisa May Alcott

     the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.

   • 2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun - Page 276:

     By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.

2. A playful antic.
   • 1680, James Dillon, 3rd Earl of Roscommon, Art of Poetry

     He would be at his frolic once again.

3. (obsolete, chiefly US) A social gathering.

Translations

See also

• cavort

Related terms

• frolicsome

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “frolic”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h?p/
• Rhymes: -?p
• (US) IPA^(key): /h?p/

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *hupp?n? (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).

Noun

hop (plural hops)

1. A short jump.

2. A jump on one leg.
3. A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on a private plane.
4. (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
5. (US, dated) A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
6. (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

1. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

   Synonyms: jump, leap

2. (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
3. (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.

4. (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.

5. (transitive) To jump onto, or over
6. (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.

7. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. To dance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Smollett to this entry?)

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.

Noun

hop (plural hops)

1. The plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers beer or ale is brewed.
3. (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
4. (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium

   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 177:

     ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’

5. The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

1. (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
2. (intransitive) To gather hops.

Anagrams

• OHP, PHO, POH, Pho, pOH, pho, poh

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hopp (“jump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?p/, [h?b?]

Noun

hop n (singular definite hoppet, plural indefinite hop)

1. jump

Inflection

Etymology 2

See hoppe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?p/, [h?b?]

Verb

hop

1. imperative of hoppe

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p/
• Hyphenation: hop
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hoppe, ultimately from Latin upupa (“hoopoe”), which may have been borrowed through Old French huppe.

Noun

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

1. hoopoe, the species Upupa epops or an individual of this species
2. any bird of the family Upupidae

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô (“hops”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keup (“tuft, hair of the head”), referring to the plant's appearance. Compare Old Saxon hoppo, Old High German hopfo, Middle English hoppe.

Noun

hop f (uncountable)

1. hop, Humulus lupulus

Derived terms

• drooghoppen
• hoppig

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hop
• ? Japanese: ???

Etymology 3

From hoppen, huppen (“to hop”).

Interjection

hop

1. go, get going

Noun

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

1. a hop, a short jump

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “hop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Finnish

Etymology

Either a clipping of hoppu, or directly from Swedish hopp (“jump”). Consider also the synonym hopoti (“horse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hop/, [?ho?p]
• Rhymes: -op
• Syllabification: hop

Interjection

hop

1. General spurring interjection.
2. Used to entice a horse into a run.
   • 1913 SKVR VIII 1625. Piikkiö. Häyrinen Kalle 8. 13.

     Hop humma Huttalaan, / parastelle Pappilaa, / Pappilasta Koroissii, / Koroissista Käräjiin,

     Hop horse to Huttala ...

   • 1913 SKVR IX1 352. Renko. Salo Aukusti. HO 24 239. 13.

     Mee ny kuultaan kirkonkellot. / Muut kuulee karjan kellot / Hop tamma / Ei ilman haluta / Jos ei poika likkaa taluta.

     ... Hop mare ...

   • 1915 SKVR XIV 1026. Myrskylä. Salminen, T. 117. 15.

     Hop hoppa kirkkoo! / Aja mummun aitan etee / Saat voitakaakkuu

     Hop horse to church / Run to the front of grandmother's granary ...

Synonyms

• hopoti
• hopoti hoi

Related terms

• hopo
• hoppa
• hopotiti hoi
• hoputtaa

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /?p/

Interjection

hop

1. Voila!, hey presto!

Further reading

• “hop” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch hoofd (“head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hop/
• Hyphenation: hop

Noun

hop

1. head, (of an organisation), chief, boss

   Synonym: kepala

Further reading

• “hop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Noun

hop m (genitive singular hop, nominative plural hopanna)

1. Alternative form of hap (“hop; blow”)

Declension

Further reading

• "hop" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hópr.

Noun

hop m (definite singular hopen, indefinite plural hoper, definite plural hopene)

1. heap, pile, crowd, multitude, cluster

Derived terms

• stjernehop

References

• “hop” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hópr. Akin to English heap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?p/

Noun

hop m (definite singular hopen, indefinite plural hopar, definite plural hopane)

1. flock, heap, gathering

Derived terms

References

• “hop” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Southern Ohlone

Noun

hop

1. redwood tree

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hópr

Pronunciation

Noun

hop c

1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

Related terms

• hopa