different between trot vs slouch
trot
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?, *trot? (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trott?n (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of tread.
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag. [From 1362.]
- (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).
- 2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14,
- Dogs have a variety of gaits. Most dogs have the walk, trot, pace, and gallop.
- 2008, Kenneth W. Hinchcliff, Andris J. Kaneps, Raymond J. Geor, Equine Exercise Physiology: The Science of Exercise in the Athletic Horse, Elsevier, page 154,
- The toelt is comfortable for the rider because the amplitude of the dorsoventral displacement is lower than at the trot. […] The slow trot is a two-beat symmetric diagonal gait. Among the normal variations of the trot of saddle horses, the speed of the gait increases from collected to extended trot.
- 2009, Gordon Wright, George H. Morris, Learning To Ride, Hunt, And Show, page 65,
- To assume the correct position for the posting trot, first walk, with the body inclined forward in a posting position. Then put the horse into a slow or sitting trot at six miles an hour. Do not post.
- 2000, Margaret H. Bonham, Introduction to: Dog Agility, page 14,
- A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.
- A brisk journey or progression.
- We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.
- In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.
- A toddler. [From 1854.]
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123,
- […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.
- 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123,
- (obsolete) A young animal. [From 1895.]
- (dance) A moderately rapid dance.
- (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.
- (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.
- He?s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.
- 1994, Noel Virtue, Sandspit Crossing, page 34,
- It was to be a hugely special occasion, for apart from the picture shows at the Majestic, there was usually nothing at all going on in Sandspit to make anyone think they were on a good trot living there.
- 2004, John Mosig, Ric Fallu, Australian Fish Farmer: A Practical Guide to Aquaculture, 2nd Edition, page 21,
- Should he or she be having a bad trot, the exchange rate will be higher than normal.
- (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)
- (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.
- He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.
Synonyms
- (gait of an animal between walk and canter):
- (ugly old woman): See Thesaurus:old woman
- (gait of a person faster than a walk): jog
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted)
- (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.
- I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.
- The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.
- 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv:
- I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart.
- c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane:
- They sent little Jane to the garden to play,
- But she opened the gate, and then trotted away
- Under the hawthorns and down the green lane,
- Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane!
- (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
- (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
Synonyms
- (to walk rapidly): jog, pace
- See also Thesaurus:walk, Thesaurus:run
Derived terms
- hot to trot
- strong enough to trot a mouse on
Translations
Etymology 2
Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre.
Noun
trot (uncountable)
- A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
Synonyms
- ppongjjak
Etymology 3
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- (derogatory, properly Trot) Clipping of Trotskyist.
References
Anagrams
- -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort
French
Etymology
From Old French trot, troter, from Medieval Latin trottare, of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?o/
Noun
trot m (plural trots)
- trot
Further reading
- “trot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- tort
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trott?, *trot? (“to go”), from Frankish *trott?n (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trud?n?, *trudan?, *tradjan? (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh?- (“to run, escape”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tr?t], [trot]
Verb
trot (third-person singular present trots, present participle trottin, past trottit, past participle trottit)
- to move at a quick steady pace
- (of water) to flow rapidly and noisily, purl, ripple
Derived terms
- (Ulster) trottle-caur (“a low vehicle for moving hay”)
Noun
trot (plural trots)
- a short, quick pace
- the fall, angle, or run on a drain
Derived terms
- jeoparty trot (“a quick motion between running and walking”)
- job-trot (“a slow, monotonous or easy going pace, the settled routine or way of doing things”)
- short in the trot (“short-tempered”)
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *tr?t?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tró?t/
Noun
tr??t m anim
- drone (male bee)
Inflection
Further reading
- “trot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English throat.
Noun
trot
- throat
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slouch
English
Etymology
From Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“a slouching, lazy fellow”), cognate to Swedish sloka (“to wilt, slouch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?t??/
- Rhymes: -a?t?
Noun
slouch (plural slouches)
- A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
- He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.
- Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
- The plant hung in a permanent slouch.
- Someone who is slow to act.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
- In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
- (dated) An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
Derived terms
- slouch hat
Translations
Verb
slouch (third-person singular simple present slouches, present participle slouching, simple past and past participle slouched)
- (intransitive) To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
- Do not slouch when playing a flute.
- (intransitive) To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
- I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
- (transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.
- 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger (page 107)
- […] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep.
- 2012, Kim Vogel Sawyer, When Hope Blossoms (page 281)
- Disappointment slouched him into the pew.
- 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger (page 107)
References
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