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Lope vs Lollop - What's the difference?

lope | lollop |

As a proper noun lope

is .

As a verb lollop is

to walk with a bouncing motion.

lope

English

Verb

(lop)
  • (obsolete) To jump, leap.
  • *, Bk.IX, Ch.xxxv:
  • *: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
  • *Middleton
  • *:He that lopes on the ropes.
  • To travel an easy pace with long strides.
  • :He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
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    lollop

    English

    Verb

  • To walk with a bouncing motion.
  • To loll or lounge
  • *1861 , All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal , Volume 5, Page 251
  • *:Every available spyglass was directed towards strange sail. It appeared, as we all watched it, to lollop up and down, as it were, with the jerk of the sea, according to no regular motion of a ship or boat.