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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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slither
English
Etymology
From Middle English slitheren, alteration of slideren (“to slither, creep”), from Old English slidrian (“to slip, slide, slither”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidr?n (“to slide, slither”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd?- (“to slip”), equivalent to slide +? -er (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Dutch slidderen (“to slip, wriggle, slither”), German schlittern (“to slither, skid”). More at slide.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sl?ð.?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?ð?(r)
Verb
slither (third-person singular simple present slithers, present participle slithering, simple past and past participle slithered)
- (intransitive) To move about smoothly and from side to side.
- (intransitive) To slide
- 2003, J. Flash, An American Savage
- I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.
- 2003, J. Flash, An American Savage
Derived terms
- aslither
- slitherlink
- Slytherin
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
slither
- (archaic) slithery; slippery
Noun
slither (uncountable)
- A limestone rubble.
- (nonstandard, see usage notes) A sliver.
Usage notes
The use of slither to mean sliver, which is prevalent especially in Britain (where th-fronting is becoming more and more prevalent), is considered by many to be an error, though at least one major dictionary merely labels it "informal" [1].
See also
- sliver
Anagrams
- Hirtles, Hitlers, Shitler, relisht
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