different between galop vs jalopy

English

Etymology

From French galop; named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade.

Noun

galop (plural galops)

1. A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
2. The music for a dance of this kind.

Verb

galop (third-person singular simple present galops, present participle galoping or galopped, simple past and past participle galoped or galopped)

1. To dance the galop.

Anagrams

• Gopal

Afrikaans

Etymology

From English gallop.

Verb

galop (present galop, present participle galoppende, past participle gegalop or galop)

1. gallop

Catalan

Noun

galop m (plural galops)

1. gallop (fastest gait of a horse)

Related terms

• galopar

Further reading

• “galop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Etymology

From French galop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al?p/, [??a?l?b?]

Noun

galop c (singular definite galoppen, plural indefinite galopper)

1. gallop

Inflection

Further reading

• “galop” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From galoper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.lo/
• Homophone: galops

Noun

galop m (plural galops)

1. gallop

Derived terms

• chassez le naturel, il revient au galop

Descendants

• ? Danish: galop
• ? English: galop
• ? Italian: galop

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From French galop.

Noun

galop m (invariable)

1. galop (originally German folk dance)

Further reading

• galop in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.l?p/

Noun

galop m inan

1. canter (three-beat horse gait)

Declension

See also

• cwa?

Further reading

• galop in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• galop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French galop

Noun

galop n (plural galopuri)

1. gallop

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lop/
• Hyphenation: ga?lop

Noun

gàlop m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. gallop

Declension

English

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Jalapa, Mexico, to whose scrap yards used cars were often sent from New Orleans starting in the 1920s. First recorded written use in 1924.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???l?.pi/

Noun

jalopy (plural jalopies)

1. (US, dated) An old, dilapidated or unpretentious automobile.
   • 1979, Jack Kerouac, On the road, page 3:

     Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he was actually born on the road, when his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926, in a jalopy, on their way to Los Angeles.

   • 2003, Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion, chapter 22:

     There's only a rough track and I doubt if that jalopy of yours will make it.

2. (US, dated, slang) A hip, cool, groovy automobile.

Synonyms

• banger, beater, bucket of bolts, clunker, crate, flivver, hooptie, junker, rattletrap, rustbucket, tin Lizzie,lemon

Translations

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