different between lope vs waddle

English

Etymology

Alteration of loup, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe, Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lo?p/
• Rhymes: -??p
• Homophone: Lop

Verb

lope (third-person singular simple present lopes, present participle loping, simple past and past participle loped)

1. To travel an easy pace with long strides.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To jump, leap.

   • And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver

   • 1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy

     he that lopes on the ropes

Derived terms

• loper

Related terms

• elope
• interlope

Translations

Noun

lope (plural lopes)

1. An easy pace with long strides.
   • 1931, Home Geographic Monthly (volumes 1-2, page 45)

     Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]

Translations

References

Anagrams

• LEPO, Pole, olpe, pleo-, pole

Afrikaans

Noun

lope

1. plural of loop

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English rope.

Noun

lope

1. rope

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

lope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lopen

Anagrams

• loep, poel

French

Etymology

Clipping of salope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/

Noun

lope f (plural lopes)

1. (slang, derogatory) male homosexual
2. (by extension, derogatory) cowardly, characterless man

Further reading

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

Inari Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Related to Northern Sami lohpi.

Noun

lope

1. promise

Inflection

Derived terms

• lopedi?

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

English

Etymology

From Middle English *wadlen, frequentative form of waden, equivalent to wade +? -le. Compare Old High German wadal?n (“to roam; wander”), Middle High German wadelen, wedelen (“to wander; rove”), German wedeln (“to waggle”).First known use in English in a version of the Song of Roland around the year 1400. (Source:OED online)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?d.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?d.?l/, [?w??.??]
• Rhymes: -?d?l
• Rhymes: -æd?l

Noun

waddle (plural waddles)

1. A squat, swaying gait.

   the waddle of a duck

Translations

Verb

waddle (third-person singular simple present waddles, present participle waddling, simple past and past participle waddled)

1. (intransitive) To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.

Translations

Anagrams

• Dewald, dawdle, dwaled, walded