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gallop
English
Etymology
From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æl?p/
- Homophone: Gallup
Noun
gallop (plural gallops)
- The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
- An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.
Derived terms
- Gish gallop
Translations
Verb
gallop (third-person singular simple present gallops, present participle galloping, simple past and past participle galloped)
- (intransitive, of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.
- (intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.
- a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
- Gallop lively down the western hill.
- a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn
- (transitive) To cause to gallop.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
- (intransitive) To run very fast.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
- Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.
- 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
- Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]
- (intransitive, of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.
Translations
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saunter
English
Etymology
Etymology unclear. Attested in the sense “to stroll” from the 1660s; noun sense “a stroll” attested 1828. Likely from earlier term meaning “to muse”, late 15th century, from Middle English santren, of unknown origin. Competing theories exist:
- From Anglo-Norman sauntrer (mid 14th century), from Middle French s'aventurer (“to take risks”); however this is considered unlikely by the OED. Compare Middle English aunter (“adventure”).
- Of Germanic origin, with proposed cognates including German schlendern, Danish slentre, Swedish släntra, and Icelandic slentr, all meaning “to stroll”.
Various fanciful folk etymologies have also been given.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?nt?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??nt?/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /?s?nt?/
- Rhymes: -??nt?(?)
Verb
saunter (third-person singular simple present saunters, present participle sauntering, simple past and past participle sauntered)
- To stroll, or walk at a leisurely pace.
- Synonyms: amble, stroll, wander
- 1858-1880, David Masson, The Life Of John Milton: 1649-1654
- One could lie under elm trees in a lawn, or saunter in meadows by the side of a stream.
Translations
Noun
saunter (plural saunters)
- A leisurely walk or stroll.
- A leisurely pace.
- (obsolete) A place for sauntering or strolling.
- 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame
- That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town.
- 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame
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References
Anagrams
- Transue, aunters, natuers, natures, sea turn, seruant, tea urns, tea-urns, unrates
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