Lope vs Lollop - What's the difference?
lope | lollop |
(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.
A horse's easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps. A lope resembles a canter.
To walk with a bouncing motion.
To loll or lounge
*1861 , All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal , Volume 5,
*: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.
As a proper noun lope
is .As a verb lollop is
to walk with a bouncing motion.lope
English
Verb
(lop)Noun
(en noun)References
Anagrams
* * ----lollop
English
Verb
Page 251